Illegal activities cause introduction of late night closure of popular Phuket Town park

An increase in illegal activities has caused Phuket City Municipality and Phuket City Police to introduce restricted opening hours of the popular Saphan Hin Park.

PHUKET: In a bid to prevent and reduce the number of illegal activities taking place in and around Saphan Hin Park in Phuket Town, new opening and closing hours for the park will come in to effect from today (Nov16).

Phuket City Municipality and Phuket City Police recently announced the new opening and closing times for the park, a public area designed for people to enjoy and a popular place for many to exercise.

However, in the past three years there has been an increase in the number of criminal activities happening in the area including murders, assaults, robberies, drug taking, car and motorbike racing, noise disturbances and general public nuisances from teenagers which have led to the restricted operational hours.

In one shooting incident, a 17-year-old boy was killed and three others were injured near Bang Yai Canal on January 29.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/illegal-activities-cause-introduction-of-late-night-closure-of-popular-phuket-town-park-54998.php

-- Phuket News 2015-11-16

That will have little effect, it will only result moving one problem from the current location to the next.

What is needed firstly are adequate facilities for the youth, so they are no longer lounging on the street. Secondly, support from society and their families to encourage the new generation not to commit crime. Lastly, a Police force actively 24/7 willing to enforce the law which is evidently lacking in Phuket.

Useronthenet makes some very good points. The kids will just take it elsewhere.

Adequate facilities for these kids who like to impress by racing their bikes................a racetrack !!!! Adult supervision, drug counselling, garages where the kids can work on their bikes, Friday and Saturday night racing where the families can come and see their kids race, legally. Different kinds of races, straightaway speed, two turns etc., trophies and champion boards.

Where I come from in the summer we had speedway racing, cart food and beers, grandstands, live music inbetween racing, fabulous fun !!!

Put police on patrol don't close it Just causing the problem to move to another area

That will have little effect, it will only result moving one problem from the current location to the next.

What is needed firstly are adequate facilities for the youth, so they are no longer lounging on the street. Secondly, support from society and their families to encourage the new generation not to commit crime. Lastly, a Police force actively 24/7 willing to enforce the law which is evidently lacking in Phuket.

You are so green , yet you made over five hundred posts, difficult for an old timer to understand.

That will have little effect, it will only result moving one problem from the current location to the next.

What is needed firstly are adequate facilities for the youth, so they are no longer lounging on the street. Secondly, support from society and their families to encourage the new generation not to commit crime. Lastly, a Police force actively 24/7 willing to enforce the law which is evidently lacking in Phuket.

So, society is to blame, right?