You sound like a greedy Thai. Better to invite every last foreign criminal in. Don,t we have enough already ? Makes me wonder if perhaps your hiding something.

Some of the comments here already are quite gormless.

Do you people not realise that Thailand has a tourist industry and that anything criminal, of any nature (however bad) affects the desire of people to visit?

Sitting in your ivory towers you must feel very self-satisfied.

You sound like a greedy Thai. Better to invite every last foreign criminal in. Don,t we have enough already ? Makes me wonder if perhaps your hiding something.

Some of the comments here already are quite gormless.

Do you people not realise that Thailand has a tourist industry and that anything criminal, of any nature (however bad) affects the desire of people to visit?

Sitting in your ivory towers you must feel very self-satisfied.

Some people have the wrong end of the stick - many people I know come to Thailand because it has this criminal element that they love

Pai - Ganja mountain resort popular with magic mushy lover 2

Full Moon Party Islands - Thai islands where parties thrown have a minimum of meth and ganja but also some heroin and cokie charlie (codeword dont want too many drugs on TV)

Pattaya - Russian mafia, German mafia, British Gay mafia, so may international mafias and hiding place of mr Sing the terrorist of India

Chaing Rai - Golden triangle for heroin and opium lovers

Thai borders - Las vegas casinos in the jungles (serious now in boolilum and Sagayo)

Secret Fake watch and handbag factories and DVD production of stolen Hollywood movies

Thailand - India Mumbai Mafia acting as loan sharks all over Thailand keeping Thai people poor

Underage brothels and kariokes

Wildlife smuggling, Forest smuggling,

if all these prostitutes were not made available rebranded as second hand wives for resale then maybe less purchasers would come

If you are not interested in any of the above then enter the scammers and thieves to finish you off for not playing ball

So Johnny99 we all know Thailand has a 'tourism' industry

One more step in the direction of democracy.

Some of the comments here already are quite gormless.

Do you people not realise that Thailand has a tourist industry and that anything criminal, of any nature (however bad) affects the desire of people to visit?

Sitting in your ivory towers you must feel very self-satisfied.

"...anything criminal, of any nature (however bad) affects the desire of people to visit?"

As well it should.

But they have no right to know what they are getting into?

Is that what you are saying?

Better to keep up a BS facade for Thailands guests?

The BIB need a PR man with a brain

The BIB needs anyone with a brain.

Some of the comments here already are quite gormless.

Do you people not realise that Thailand has a tourist industry and that anything criminal, of any nature (however bad) affects the desire of people to visit?

Sitting in your ivory towers you must feel very self-satisfied.

Regardless of Thailand's tourist industry - the government and police should be transparent. Rather than worring about how arrests affect the tourist industry, why not start changing the actual environemnt where it is more tourist friendly rather than worrying about the truth being told. If the Thailand tourism industry is so important - use the energy to make it safe and attractive in reality - don't just worry about the media representation.

I'm disappointed that this report was not accompanied by a photo of the Police Chief pointing at a policeman talking to a reporter.

Some of the comments here already are quite gormless.

Do you people not realise that Thailand has a tourist industry and that anything criminal, of any nature (however bad) affects the desire of people to visit?

Sitting in your ivory towers you must feel very self-satisfied.

Do you realise that by not allowing the reporting of and thus not allowing scrutiny of any police action is a form a censorship.

All the checks and balances are thrown out the window!

How many tourists are victims of corruption? The RTP are such model examples they enhance the reputation of Thailand

But TIT

Nothing to do with justice no doubt...

Why everytime I see this guy's mugshot does he look so smug?...

Arrogant or ignorant? The control of crime stats - to what end really?

You sound like a greedy Thai. Better to invite every last foreign criminal in. Don,t we have enough already ? Makes me wonder if perhaps your hiding something.

Some of the comments here already are quite gormless.

Do you people not realise that Thailand has a tourist industry and that anything criminal, of any nature (however bad) affects the desire of people to visit?

Sitting in your ivory towers you must feel very self-satisfied.

Some people have the wrong end of the stick - many people I know come to Thailand because it has this criminal element that they love

Pai - Ganja mountain resort popular with magic mushy lover 2

Full Moon Party Islands - Thai islands where parties thrown have a minimum of meth and ganja but also some heroin and cokie charlie (codeword dont want too many drugs on TV)

Pattaya - Russian mafia, German mafia, British Gay mafia, so may international mafias and hiding place of mr Sing the terrorist of India

Chaing Rai - Golden triangle for heroin and opium lovers

Thai borders - Las vegas casinos in the jungles (serious now in boolilum and Sagayo)

Secret Fake watch and handbag factories and DVD production of stolen Hollywood movies

Thailand - India Mumbai Mafia acting as loan sharks all over Thailand keeping Thai people poor

Underage brothels and kariokes

Wildlife smuggling, Forest smuggling,

if all these prostitutes were not made available rebranded as second hand wives for resale then maybe less purchasers would come

If you are not interested in any of the above then enter the scammers and thieves to finish you off for not playing ball

So Johnny99 we all know Thailand has a 'tourism' industry

No Jim, not a Thai, the sentences (and terminology) are structured differently than what a Thai would use. No Johnnie is a falang who has all the wrong priorities, would rather a bonny bouncing tourist industry than dealing with criminality. Probably a one time screamer or a lounge chair tourist. Plenty of them about.

Of course we know Thailand has a tourist industry.

Most of the major countries here have police liaison officers working here: for instance I am sure there will be British police officers working here purely to monitor and track British fugitives from justice. I met one such officer recently, not British, but from another European police force and asked him what it was liking working with the RTP, anticipating a litany of horror stories. His reply was that they get everything they want from the RTP and that it works well. He said they of course pay the RTP for their support but generally they tell the RTP who they want and the RTP do the rest for them. I was quite impressed but I am fairly naive about these matters!

I believe in openness. I realise that secrecy is required before arrest, but after I see little reason and many risks. Too easy to abuse.

I am beginning to wonder if the TAT is running this country behind the scenes. The way any outcomes are arrived at would certainly lend some credibility to that; ...always favorable to tourism.

More like they dont want a bad rep because of tourism, what about thee publics right to know that a person who is a danger to society is on the loose.

Hello, wake up and smell the coffee! The public has no rights, especially the foreign public. You should know that.

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Most of the major countries here have police liaison officers working here: for instance I am sure there will be British police officers working here purely to monitor and track British fugitives from justice. I met one such officer recently, not British, but from another European police force and asked him what it was liking working with the RTP, anticipating a litany of horror stories. His reply was that they get everything they want from the RTP and that it works well. He said they of course pay the RTP for their support but generally they tell the RTP who they want and the RTP do the rest for them. I was quite impressed but I am fairly naive about these matters!

They asked for a campaign against recreational drugs and got it. Sure they can buy actions of the Thai police. I do not want to see the influence of english pigs here. Let them sort out Asian peedos in the northern cities of the UK.

Most of the major countries here have police liaison officers working here: for instance I am sure there will be British police officers working here purely to monitor and track British fugitives from justice. I met one such officer recently, not British, but from another European police force and asked him what it was liking working with the RTP, anticipating a litany of horror stories. His reply was that they get everything they want from the RTP and that it works well. He said they of course pay the RTP for their support but generally they tell the RTP who they want and the RTP do the rest for them. I was quite impressed but I am fairly naive about these matters!

They asked for a campaign against recreational drugs and got it. Sure they can buy actions of the Thai police. I do not want to see the influence of english pigs here. Let them sort out Asian peedos in the northern cities of the UK.

LOL and in the southern cities too and apparently involving some quite tasty people if current reports are to believed!

Really, chief? keep it a secrete?

what is it, and episode of 'get smart ' where the chief and Maxell smart sitting under the 'dome

of silence' and the chief ask him to keep the war on criminal gangs operating in Thailand a 'secrete'?

Thanks for the television trip down memory lane. I had almost forgotten that one. He was funny.

From what i am able to gather. It seems the ones who totallly flip when i make a comment about foreign criminal hiding in Thailand or foreigners behaving badly. Seem to be the ones condoning that behavior.

You sound like a greedy Thai. Better to invite every last foreign criminal in. Don,t we have enough already ? Makes me wonder if perhaps your hiding something.

Some of the comments here already are quite gormless.

Do you people not realise that Thailand has a tourist industry and that anything criminal, of any nature (however bad) affects the desire of people to visit?

Sitting in your ivory towers you must feel very self-satisfied.

Some people have the wrong end of the stick - many people I know come to Thailand because it has this criminal element that they love

Pai - Ganja mountain resort popular with magic mushy lover 2

Full Moon Party Islands - Thai islands where parties thrown have a minimum of meth and ganja but also some heroin and cokie charlie (codeword dont want too many drugs on TV)

Pattaya - Russian mafia, German mafia, British Gay mafia, so may international mafias and hiding place of mr Sing the terrorist of India

Chaing Rai - Golden triangle for heroin and opium lovers

Thai borders - Las vegas casinos in the jungles (serious now in boolilum and Sagayo)

Secret Fake watch and handbag factories and DVD production of stolen Hollywood movies

Thailand - India Mumbai Mafia acting as loan sharks all over Thailand keeping Thai people poor

Underage brothels and kariokes

Wildlife smuggling, Forest smuggling,

if all these prostitutes were not made available rebranded as second hand wives for resale then maybe less purchasers would come

If you are not interested in any of the above then enter the scammers and thieves to finish you off for not playing ball

So Johnny99 we all know Thailand has a 'tourism' industry

No Jim, not a Thai, the sentences (and terminology) are structured differently than what a Thai would use. No Johnnie is a falang who has all the wrong priorities, would rather a bonny bouncing tourist industry than dealing with criminality. Probably a one time screamer or a lounge chair tourist. Plenty of them about.

Of course we know Thailand has a tourist industry.