Royal Thai Police to get new facelift

[Lite Beer]

Royal Thai Police to get new facelift

BANGKOK: -- Royal Thai Police commissioner Pol Gen Somyot Phumpanmuang vowed to clean the Royal Thai Police of all corruption and make it a new government agency with morality and good governance where the people can rely on.

The press conference was held at 10.30 am to clarify the arrest of 10 police officers and civilians on various charges ranging from bribery to lese majeste. One of the officers is former Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) Pol Lt-Gen Gen Pongpat Chayaphan.

Besides, a Crime Suppression Division (CSD) officer Pol Lt-Col Akarawut Limrat who committed suicide after facing questioning on the same case was also clarified.

Pol Gen Somyot said all these officers were charged separately for the crimes they committed.

For the former CIB commissioner, he said he was found guilty in almost all areas of responsibilities he was in charge and that could raise money for him.

He said all these misdeeds have been known for quite sometime but nobody dare to act as well as the past bosses.

“Everybody in the past knows how powerful and influential the CIB commissioner was, but no national police chiefs in the past would take action,” he said.

But he said that as he is the new national police chief, these things would not be allowed to go free or happen again.

He said he would build a new police norm, new standard, new guidelines for the police and the organisation that will be clean, free of corruption, have good governance and morality that the people can rely on.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/royal-thai-police-get-new-facelift

-- Thai PBS 2014-11-25

[NongKhaiKid]

Isn't he too busy with the stock market and ' cleaning up ' in another fashion ?

[Fiddlesticks]

Well this guy is talking a good story. Now let's see if any of this materializes in our lifetime. I certainly hope it will though I am not holding my breath.

[Fred Flinstone]

Great news !

Lets all wish them success in this project

[HeijoshinCool]

You can't make rotten eggs good again. You have to throw them out, and find fresh ones.

[Tatsujin]

Never going to happen ... it'll just carry on as normal, but slightly more discreetly for a while ... other than (of course) their crusade to clean out all Thaksin-affiliated (bought and paid for) Policemen, which will continue and isn't such a bad thing.

[Chang_paarp]

"The Emperor's New Clothes" come to mind.

[daiwill60]

Well, maybe if he is speaking as he intends to go on , then he had better get his arse over to Koh Tao and start sweeping the filth that is gathering there.

No man should be allowed exemption from proper investigations, regardless of their place in society, and that should be his first priority now that he has come out and said that nobody had the balls to take on the CIB Commissioner, until now and that he is the man with this intention.

If he is basically saying now, that no one is going to get away with anything , let's see him put his money where his mouth is.

[CockneyGit]

Facelift..??

Needs amputations!

[Orac]

Maybe it is not so much the case that Somyot has bigger balls than those before him but a change of circumstances which made him more vulnerable.

[kingalfred]

What an indictment of law in the country, the police at senior level "knew what was going on" but never acted.Root & Branch reform required.

[toybits]

Yeah! Right! Lipstick on a Pig!!!

[spidermike007]

The government would have to truly be willing to commit $500 billion perhaps $1 trillion to bringing any meaningful reforms of the Thai Police Department. Extensive overseas training, extensive training with experts from all over the world, extensive forensic equipment, world class crime labs with world.class equipment, massive retraining of staff and most important of all substantial raises in the salaries, to the point where the average policeman can live comfortably, support his family and not have to bribe innocents, for a silly gesture in order for the policeman to survive. Anything less is pure jawboning.

[poohy]

A face lift implies cosmetic surgery what the RTP needs is major life saving surgery!

[sweatalot]

Impossible without first properly and transperently cleaning up the Koh Tao scandal - among a lot of other things

Edited November 25, 2014 by sweatalot

[jaidam]

A facelift will not solve this problem. There is only one way to clean up the police, if reform is really wanted. That would be to fire 100% of the police, accept complaints against them from the public they have been extorting, bullying, selling drugs to, taking their daughters into bonded sex work, and every other standard police fundraiser. Punishments will be fair, and very harsh. Seized assets to be sold and used for overseas training,building police accommodation, crime fighting technology.There will be no bail or tickets to Singapore.

Future policemen will sign up to the job, working for fair pay, knowing that if they are corrupt and caught, they will get the death penalty. No ifs, no buts.

But who could oversee such a "clean" police force? Financial whizz-kid Somyot? No chance, but a certain well liked resident of Los Angeles seems to have the right stuff.

[terryp]

complete and utter bolloc--

the vast corruption of the RTP is unfixable by the current top brass, a massive cull is required and a totally independent (FOREIGN) investigation of those left is needed....a compulsive liar cant stop just like these parasites

[Fiddlesticks]

The government would have to truly be willing to commit $500 billion perhaps $1 trillion to bringing any meaningful reforms of the Thai Police Department. Extensive overseas training, extensive training with experts from all over the world, extensive forensic equipment, world class crime labs with world.class equipment, massive retraining of staff and most important of all substantial raises in the salaries, to the point where the average policeman can live comfortably, support his family and not have to bribe innocents, for a silly gesture in order for the policeman to survive. Anything less is pure jawboning.

Jeez, we all learn to walk before we run. Perhaps they could focus on taking the initial baby steps toward achieving a real police force. I for one, would like to see the police force focus on dramatically reducing corruption first. Then take some further steps toward ACTIVELY enforcing laws while handing out meaningful penalties for offenders. These two steps would go a LONG way to making Thailand safer and they don't require so much of an investment in capital.

[worgeordie]

"Facelift" I hope its not by one of those dodgy Thai plastic surgeons

regards Worgeordie

[Commerce]

The problem here is classmates; all employed to cover each other's arse.

I remember a prob in the junior playground... when we were at war. We all made machine-gun noises that went, "D-na na na, D-na na na, D-na na na."

One day a new boy came, and he went, "K-chow, K-chow, K-chow", and just as we were getting into serious battle, the dinner lady all dressed in pink said, "Come on boys, inside, it's spittin'. It's spittin'. It's that rain that gets you wet through."

So we never got to the end of that war game, to see if he was on our side or not, but when summer came he had a bazooka sound, "K-boom, Kboom" and we all had to pretend to die.......

And the moral of that was....... I have no <deleted> idea.

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

Facelift when a lobotomy is required!

[Thai at Heart]

Facelift.

Well thry went after the Noriega look alike, so maybe this is just literally going sfter the really ugly ones for cosmetics.

If they clean it all up it will be a legacy left by Prayuth he will deserve the equivalent of sainthood.

[sfokevin]

Facelift... Better to remove a few greasy palms...

[Commerce]

"Facelift" I hope its not by one of those dodgy Thai plastic surgeons

regards Worgeordie

Let's hope it is.... a few patients may die!

[jaltsc]

"He said he would build a new police norm, new standard, new guidelines for the police and the organisation that will be clean, free of corruption, have good governance and morality that the people can rely on."

The only way that is going to happen is if he lobotomizes the entire force to erase any iota of Thainess in them, and then re-program them into thinking 180 degrees in the opposite direction from what is the norm for police.

Edited November 25, 2014 by jaltsc

[paddyjenkins]

I hope I'm wrong....but I can't help thinking they're just going to put lipstick on a pig....rather than doing it the right way

[fab4]

BANGKOK: -- Royal Thai Police commissioner Pol Gen Somyot Phumpanmuang vowed to clean the Royal Thai Police of all corruption and make it a new government agency with morality and good governance where the people can rely on.

National police chief Somyot Pumpunmuang and his wife have assets totalling B246.4 million and B128.2 million respectively. Their net worth after debts of B18.8 million is B355.8 million.

http://www.thephuketnews.com/pm-prayuth-‘can-justify-personal-wealth’-49445.php

Samart Corporation and the national police chief have acquired more than half of handset distributor M-Link Asia Corporation after the stake was offered for sale by the Wongsawat family, which has links to the influential Shinawatra clan.

The 1.2-billion-baht acquisition of the 50%-plus holding in M-Link marks the gradual exit of both families from their vast business interests in the burgeoning telecommunications industry.

Samart, headed by founder and chief executive Watchai Vilailuck, together with the new police chief, Pol Gen Somyot Pumpanmuang, will hold a combined 50%-plus stake in M-Link

http://www.bangkokbusinessbrief.com/2014/11/12/police-chief-in-big-shinawatra-deal/

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[mojorison]

Couldn't be bothered reading the article. So I'll just go off half cocked, like I do normally anyway. Facelift=superficial... amiright?

[Cuchulainn]

Facelift..??

Needs amputations!

Terminations, dear boy, terminations.

[slygeeza]

having a system where police are able to go out and collect money more or less at gunpoint off anyone who doesnt have the money to fight them in court will always lead to corruption, an example is girls on Pattaya Beach who are taken to the station and then told they have to pay the police or else spend some nights in the cells even tho they have broken no laws, they have no options, thats just one of thousands of examples that happen every day, also having a system where a policeman legally gets a cut of every fine he makes, which is the case in Thailand, will also naturally lead to corruption. nothing can change until laws and the whole system is changed. talking about it and arresting a few police wont change anything