Special Thai task force to deal with street racing by 'Dek Van' to be formed

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Special task force to deal with street racing by “Dek Van” to be formed



BANGKOK: -- Motorcycle street racers, or known as "Dek Van" will now come under tougher enforcement of laws and police action under an agreement reached at a meeting of a total of 64 government agencies yesterday.

The meeting was hosted by the Justice Ministry as a proposal for the prime minister to invoke Section 44 of the interim constitution to quell these defiant teenagers was also debated.

Earlier Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha announced that he wished to see the street racing by these teenagers resolved by all relevant agencies in one month.

However he said he might also exercise power under Section 44 to resolve the problem, making clear he didn’t mean to use power to suppress teenagers drastically, but merely through a compromise as they are still kids.

The power would be used to facilitate legal obstacles and cut short the lengthy law procedures so that laws could be amended quickly.

This might include amendment of laws to hold parents responsible for street racing by their kids, he said.

The meeting yesterday agreed upon three steps of measures to put an end to the problem, now posing threat to the lives of people sharing the same roads with these “Dek Van.”

The short-term or immediate action plans tasked the Royal Thai Police to order every police station in the capital and in the provinces where these unscrupulous teenagers continue to defy the laws to set up a special task force to deal particularly with these teenagers.

Each task force will comprise about 50 policemen and they must be ready around the clock to move in to police these street racers promptly upon alerted.

Normally traffic police were tasked with the job. But as street racers grow in sizes with more than a hundred motorcycles were involved in the race, and blatant violation of laws with no regard to safety of other road users, it was beyond the capability of traffic police to handle.

The medium term measure will look to which government agency should come to handle the problem and whether any law should be amended, and the long term measure will involve how ton annex laws to penalise parents and teenagers found guilty of street racing.

Royal Thai Police spokesman Pol Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri said this stage would look into rehabilitation scheme for defiant teenagers whether it should be how many days to enter the guilty to change their behaviour.

This would be discussed in details so that the schooling of these teenagers would not be affected if they were to be sent to take the rehabilitation courses, he said.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/special-task-force-to-deal-with-street-racing-by-dek-van-to-be-formed


-- Thai PBS 2015-06-17

[Just1Voice]

Arrest them, 10,000 baht fine, stay in custody till it's paid, crush the bikes. End of street racing

[NongKhaiKid]

64 govt agencies to discuss and agree on a matter of basic law enforcement by the police ! Well I suppose with so many involved if anything goes wrong the BIB can protect themselves with their beloved finger pointing.

How far will these task forces go enforcing the crackdown when they start catching youths who are hiso or otherwise connected ?

[chinx888]

Thanks, in advance, for any info.

Very interesting. thanks for sharing.

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[bangkokfrog]

50 police per station to be ready around the clock to fight crime... now that will be a novelty !!!

[wabothai]

build a Nurnberg Ring for the kids. they hardly have anything else to do. You think they are going to visit museums?

[Ulic]

I just don't understand. Enact a law that allows the bikes to be confiscated. Confiscate and sell the

scooters. Even the wealthiest of parents will quickly tire of buying there kids new bikes to replace

the ones confiscated and auctioned off by the police. Of course all the scooters would have to be

brought back into manufactures specks in regard to the exhaust systems. ie. lower the decibel levels.

[Local Drunk]

Stupid waste of manpower... Thai cops can't manage a u- turn or a bus stop in Bkk. How are they going to control dek vin?

Edited June 17, 2015 by Local Drunk

[Artisi]

Give them a place off the roads to run their bikes - after which, caught racing on the roads - crush the bikes with a hefty fine just to reinforce the idea that on the roads is off limits.

Don't piss about - just get on with it and make a start.

[gandalf12]

Give them a place off the roads to run their bikes - after which, caught racing on the roads - crush the bikes with a hefty fine just to reinforce the idea that on the roads is off limits.

Don't piss about - just get on with it and make a start.

Make it interesting and use some nice high cliffs for them

[Halion]

He we go only a few months after it was empowered Article 44 has been adopted for the war against street racing. I thank God that Thailand is not a nuclear power or we would be taking them out with cruise missiles.

The foot is now firmly in the door for draconian actions. What will be next

[FloridaExport]

Just set up some cops a few hundred meters ahead of the racers to throw some caltrops into the street. Then have some Burmese sweepers to come by to clean up the carnage. After a few weeks of that, there won't be any street racers left. Problem solved.