Police stings net three drug gang members - but leader escapes in handcuffs

[diehard60]

Maybe friends with the cops?????

[selftaopath]

One can imagine the Benny Hill theme playing every time these plonkers try to arrest someone and "confusion breaks out".

https://youtu.be/MK6TXMsvgQg

[selftaopath]

You could not make this up in a month of Sundays.

No, it appears the writers keep rehashing the same story...

02/08/2014 - Police still on lookout for Phuket drug dealer

• "When police arrived at the house to question Mr Tirawut on July 31, he fled the scene. Police then entered the house and found Ms Warathip in the bedroom with four guns, holsters, and ammunition."

15/10/2014 - Police arrest two men part of a drug network Selling Crystal Meth in Koh Samui

• "when he became aware of the arrival of the police, he left the meth and his pickup truck Bronze Toyota Vigo behind and escaped running to the mountain."

11/11/2015 - Notorious drug gang smashed in Bangkok

• "Police said they are still on the lookout for Jay, the leader of the gang after he fled from the house during the raid by jumping into a canal."

12/01/2016 - Three Arrested, One Dead and Four Escape After Drug Mule – Police Gunfight

• "After the sting operation began, police were able to arrest three of the drug mules, aged 31, 52 and 60. However, the other four managed to escape during a gun fight,"

14/01/2016 - Drug Dealer's House Raided, Dealer Escapes

• "police raided the house of Tawee Thanomrungruang ... by the time police entered his house, he had already escaped."

01/04/2016 - Police seize 313 kilos of cannabis headed for Koh Phangan

• "but when they ordered it to stop the driver managed to swerve round a truck. He crashed into a roadside klong but managed to flee."

06/04/2016 - Police seize 1.2 tons of ganja in north Thailand but Laotian gang escape

• "Some thirty drug members managed to escape in two boats in the confusion disappearing back from whence they came."

Again I fell back into the notion that policing here is similar to developed countries police departments. lo I make this mistake almost daily.

It might be more realistic and explainable to view policing here as a business. The "bottom line" is the only driving motivation.

When will I learn?????

[Krataiboy]

. . . he slipped through their fingers in Saraburi, reports Thairath.

Well, Thais do have very small hands.

[Stargeezr]

From reading the article from Jamesbrock, I have to wonder if

the police in Thailand will ever improve. It seems that not only are

the police members badly paid, but they are not getting any wiser with dealing

with these drug people and general bad guys. Corruption is an evil

thing, and too much corruption makes a weak country.

I hope the PM and government of Thailand realize this some day in the

future. I am only a geezer tourist though, so my opinion amounts to

spit on a rainy day.

Geezer

[ResandePohm]

If I had caught his sorry ass I put a bullet between his eyes and call it suicide.

You are so brave!

[Nobb]

I hope they got there 1 million baht escape that they paid for. This police force is splitting the money right now and laughing at all the people who could possibly believe this made up story!

[selftaopath]

From reading the article from Jamesbrock, I have to wonder if

the police in Thailand will ever improve. It seems that not only are

the police members badly paid, but they are not getting any wiser with dealing

with these drug people and general bad guys. Corruption is an evil

thing, and too much corruption makes a weak country.

I hope the PM and government of Thailand realize this some day in the

future. I am only a geezer tourist though, so my opinion amounts to

spit on a rainy day.

Geezer

Does anyone believe "the corrupt" care much about Thailand, or it's people?