Crackdown ordered on human traffickers

[Lite Beer]

Crackdown ordered on human traffickers
The Sunday Nation

BANGKOK: -- The Interior Ministry has instructed provincial governors to survey the number of migrant workers and dispatch special-task teams to crack down on human traffickers.

The move is part of the bid to get Thailand out of a Tier 3 ranking on the United States' Trafficking in Persons Report 2015, to be out in June. People were also urged to report human trafficking on the 1567 hotline.

Permanent secretary for the Interior Wiboon Sanguanpong said yesterday governors were told to implement urgent measures until March - to gather related data, inspect establishments 'at risk' of having trafficked people, set up a multi-disciplined panel to screen any "damaged" victims and give regular reports of operational results to the ministry.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Crackdown-ordered-on-human-traffickers-30255089.html

-- The Nation 2015-03-01

[HeijoshinCool]

Ah yes, the monthly crackdown on trafficking announcement.

[thesetat2013]

Ah yes, the monthly crackdown on trafficking announcement.

Which means the imm offices will be going around giving foreigners working a hard time again in search of the illegal workers they already know about and allow. What a crock!

[Jessi]

Its all about getting Thailand off tier 3 from the U.S.

This is just more "Smoke & Mirrors"

Its the children that suffers upsets me.

[HeijoshinCool]

Its all about getting Thailand off tier 3 from the U.S.

This is just more "Smoke & Mirrors"

Its the children that suffers upsets me.

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Yep. That is 100% exactly what it's about.

They think making these regular announcements about, oh my, crackdowns! will set them straight with the west. So naive about the rest of the world.

[Toknarok]

Yes it's all about the money of course. Not the fact that the appaling treatment of the poor unfortunates being trafficked should be the prime consideration for trying to stop it, but that the failure to get Thailand off the 'third tier' might lead to economic sanctions by the USA and the EU.

[Emster23]

These crackdowns continually announced reveal that concept that rooting out crime and punishing the guilty just doesn't seem to occur to the wise ones who administer the police and "justice" system. "Oh, we are supposed to enforce the laws as a matter of course? Who's paying, btw?"

[Jessi]

They still haven't caught the two B A S T A R D S that did this.

http://www.chiangraitimes.com/burmese-child-slave-puts-spotlight-on-abuse-of-foreign-maids-in-thailand.html

And yes its all about money.

[iReason]

Follow the money.

But the cowards won't go after the "influentials".

Especially, if there is Military involved.

There will just be more window dressing with photos of some hookers and farm workers.

Illegal workers.

Scapegoats. Subterfuge.

The way they do it here.

Got news for you Somchai, that doesn't wash on the world stage.

"governors were told to implement urgent measures until March"

What? The season will be over?

I guess the operations are over.

Today.

March 1.

[Oziex1]

The seriousness of this issue really requires attention and full responsibility from the top.

Delegating to Governors or whoever shows a lack of concern and commitment, this is not going to go away and the world will hold Thailand accountable.

[spectrumisgreen]

Funny they have to have 'crackdowns' on things which are illegal anyway!! Might as well just admit that the enforcement of the statutory laws aren't actually working and/ or being applied with any real will!.. of course, the rest of the world, and even anyone reading the latest 'THIS TIME we mean it!!' announcement recognise such things for what they really are, a giveaway admission of uselessness in law-enforcement and even naivete about how the rest of the world views such governing agencies' attempts to appear that things are otherwise...

Edited March 1, 2015 by spectrumisgreen

[Strangebrew]

Well maybe if you put the crack down and face the issue then enforce the Law's all the while going after the big bosses who deal in slave labor then you wouldn't need this monthly BS report. Ever think of that?

[MaxLee]

All about face, nothing but face.

[maidee]

after a crackdown anouncement

you can expect the next one will be

thailand , hub of xxx

[Jessi]

All about face, nothing but face.

Very True, but also has a lot to do with Money.

Just follow the money.

[ExPratt]

In an opinion Poll of people alleged to have been victims of Human Trafficking 97% said they were in Thailand on Holiday. TAT have announced a 97% rise in Tourism creating revenue of 675 Billion Baht

[DM07]

Whenever I read the word "crackdown", I refuse to read on!99% of what

is following, is usually BS!

The same happens with the word "hub"!

[Srikcir]

"dispatch special-task teams to crack down on human traffickers."

That should be easy enough for the military to perform. They're used to cracking down on humans.