Royal Thai Police to get new facelift

[Suffinator]

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.

I'm just about to launch my new Piggy Airways service ... only US$10.00 first-class BKK to LHR - I'm sure that will just as successful.

[EyesWideOpen]

I am amazed that he is able to make a statement like that with a straight face.

As he is the head policeman of a organization that corrupt from the bottom

to the top, it would stand to reason he would be involved too. Pretty sure

his personal finances could not withstand a full investigative background check.

His stock market purchases on his government salary are pretty funny....

Now where did those hundreds of millions of baht come from again ????

Fire all the police, and start fresh. This is truly a tainted organization..

Edited November 25, 2014 by EyesWideOpen

[spermwhale]

Royal Thai Police to get new facelift

As opposed to an OLD facelift?

[ronthai]

As long as it is LEGAL for the police to put up a large poster, which says:

Drunk Driving Fines:

Thai 5000 baht

Farang 20.000 baht

I won't believe in any cleanup.

PS. Of course I am against drunk driving, but the poster is real on the Dark Side in Pattaya-East.

Just wish I could get a photo of it and post here.

[Jean Pierre Jacquot]

Blablablabla...just old wine in a new bottle!

[trianglechoke]

Never mind polishing the turd, let's cover it in glitter and perhaps people will forget it's a turd!

[PETERTHEEATER]

Royal Thai Police to get new facelift

New facelift? When was the last one? Did I miss it?

[MobileContent]

The CIB guys got court.

How about those farces at the RTP at Lumpini and Thonglor or the chief of Bangsue Police?

Thonglor controls the money at Cowboy and Lumpini cops are often seen day time at Nana Plaza to collect the payments.

The CIB cleanup is not enough. Can the police chief promise that all gambling dens will be shut down by this month?

If the CIB can pocket so much money I know why the police chiefs from before didn't do a clean-up as they will most properly have their own side businesses.

[KIWIBATCH]

...The first step in this reform would be to remove the word "Royal" from the organisations title...they simply do not deserve to use this word.

We would then be left with "TP"....okay......so let's just pop in "The Pretenders"

So then as these massive reforms go along day by day and are set in place and noticeable...we can (firstly) allow the use of the words "The Police"....and then when we have witnessed the (final step) in the reforms ......."The Police" would get the word "Royal" back

Would somebody please tell my 3 year old grandsons son when the reforms are completed...thank you 3 times

[chainarong]

The RTP needs more than a facelift ,a head transplant might be more appropriate

[Emster23]

Always about "Face" here it seems, but few face the music....

How about asking Singapore to extradite son of red bull back here for a lesson in "justice for all"?

[Etherus]

Diogenes wandered around Greece looking for an honest man, and like in Thailand, they don't exist.

[Jack Mountain]

Always about "Face" here it seems, but few face the music....

How about asking Singapore to extradite son of red bull back here for a lesson in "justice for all"?

and that minister's son who shot a policeman ... oh wait ...

[orange31]

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

Absolutely. Hear hear. Spot on. hit the nail on the head...

The fact that this man is saying this makes it an oxymoron

[Sydebolle]

Once they're done, could they pass through Pattaya please? A serious mop-up would be in order

[Thrilla]

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.

A terrific example of the quality of 90% of poster comments on Thai Visa

[sgtsabai]

Basically it means a new "group" will now (already is?) be getting the graft. They have already been cutting deeply into police pockets. By the number of roadblocks, non-sensical citations (no green book?) day and night up here the police are getting desperate to pay their mia nois, even the Thais say so.

[ezzra]

So who's going to clean the cleaners than?

[Darbar]

Ok.. so in the coming days / weeks / months we should be seeing hundreds of arrests of high ranking officers, and thousands of arrests of lower ranking officers...

Or...

Is what he is saying code for "We're having a corrupt policeman amnesty, but will be making examples of a few corrupt officers to prove to the world that we are doing something"

Obviously, this is his plan, as he hasn't even mentioned actions / punishments / intentions for the other 99.9% of corrupt officers.

If we don't see the arrests, we'll have the answer!

[AjarnMartin]

How refreshing to hear someone with the balls to grab the nettle. I so hope, for Thailand's future, that he is a man of his word. On the street, there is no kind word to say about police activity currently and this would go a long way to lifting the status of the RTP and the confidence of the Thai population. Well done!

[mogo51]

Does he mean by 'facelift' they will all turn into ladyboys??? I will be waiting with baited breath to see this - but will not hold it!

[davidmann]

does this mean when i get stopped for speeding ,i can't just pay 200 bt go ,try getting caught for speeding in the UK ,

[toybits]

I will believe those pronouncements of house cleaning (not facelift - which is a totally unfortunate analogy here) when they start accepting reports about where the illegal casinos are located and action it. When they accept reports where those slot machines are located and arrest the operators and the police officer who comes to collect income from the slot machines. I will believe those pronouncements when the enforcement is done long term and just done just to satisfy public interest.

[casindonet]

They will need an island larger then phuket to place all those transferred to inactive post.....

[PatOngo]

Royal Thai Police to get new facelift

As opposed to an OLD facelift?

Botox!

[SPB65]

What a load of Botox !

[klauskunkel]

“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.

...and then they all got bail...khap khun crap!

[Classic Ray]

Another essential move is to break any corrupt links between Government, the Armed Forces, the Police and big business. The way they went about it in Hong Kong was to form the ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) and staff it predominantly with expat police officers and financial investigation staff. This was of course when it was a Crown Colony and they could import UK police on secondment.

Along with substantially raising the salaries of all police officers to remove the excuse of poverty for bribery and corruption, there will need to be a sustained will at Government level to root out all the bad apples and bad behaviour. This may include removing conflicting business interests from serving police and armed forces personnel, as is mandated in the West, but is a monumental task in Thailand.

If the people can support and insist on this, there is a chance of success. If everyone sits back and waits for the storm to blow over, then nothing will change. I hope the PM sees this through.

[chotthee]

Corruption. Both givers and takers must be punish.

If the takers can becomes multi-multi billionaire for collecting promotion request 3 to 5 million, I think 99.99% of today's police must also be charged for giving bribe to secure their promotions, to that pineapple face police chief.

[EnglishJohn]

does this mean when i get stopped for speeding ,i can't just pay 200 bt go ,try getting caught for speeding in the UK ,

If they can't pocket the cash for their bosses 'tea fund', you won't see them out stopping people much. They just won't be bothered - like every other law.

One day the tax system might have developed enough to rely on fines as a budget income when they've taxed every other possible avenue (just like the UK), but I reckon we have about 100 years before that given how much progress I have seen here in the last 10.