The wait is finally over - please welcome Thailand's "Smart Police"

[PatOngo]

23 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

You cannot make this stuff up. This would have been a fitting subject for one of George Carlin's acts, if only that great comedic master were still alive today. This is how you could actually make the police here smarter:

 

The federal government finally mans up, and appropriates the necessary budget to reform, and equip, and train the entire department, from the ground up. This would probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 trillion baht to being with. Yes, you heard that right. About 60 billion dollars would probably be required in the first year. This would go towards raising the salary levels, to the point where a policeman could support his family, without having to resort to the all too familiar M.O. of accepting cash in exchange for a service provided. Salaries would have to be doubled, at a minimum. There are an estimated 230,000 police officers nationwide. That alone, would be an increased expense of 33 billion baht annually, using an average salary of 12,000 per month. And I do not think the 230,000 figure includes the highway patrol. This reform would also require:

 

1. New vehicles, and motorbikes, up to an international standard. An addition of 1,000 cars and trucks for the national police, so that there would be more presence on the nation's highways, not just AFTER an accident occurs.

2. Proper training of detectives, and forensic experts. This would probably require the use of competent foreign nationals, like Scotland Yard or the FBI, for training, and perhaps sending some of the experts overseas for more effective training. 

3. The building of forensic labs, up to international standards, employing tens, or perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars worth of top grade scientific, DNA testing, and other forensic equipment. 

4. The training of the police up to a far higher standard. New training institutes would have to be established, to train new recruits to do real police work, and investigations. Guessing would have to be eliminated, as is common practice now.

5. A huge network of foreign trained police dogs would have to come from the newly formed canine institute, where new dogs would be trained, as well as the officers required to handle them on canine duty.

6. Advanced computer systems and analysts would have to be installed and trained, to operate a state of the art central database. 

7. The quid pro quo, that allows the police to behave in any manner they like, when it comes to revenue collection, and fortune building would have to be eliminated, in exchange for the above.

8. The current system of total asylum for officers found collecting fortunes would be abolished. The government would begin to pursue crooked policemen, and begin to arrest them, and make sure they were convicted, and send to prison for many years, instead of transferring them at full salary, as is done today. 

 

I could go on, and on, all day long. But, this would be a good place to start. And I think my budget estimate is conservative considering the massive work that has to be done. Essentially, the RTP has to be rebuilt from the ground up. Will that ever happen? That is anybody's guess.

 

 

 

 

 

Sprinkling them with fairy dust would have a more positive effect!

[silent]

Smart Police? Does that mean in future when I'm pulled over at the nightly spot check on my street, I won't scare both of us again when he looks at the 0 reading and whines"you sure you no drinky one maybe two beer"

[AsianExport]

Smart + Police + Thailand ? never seen these 3 words associated in the same sentence ! Its obviously impossible.

[chilli42]

4 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

LoS Smart Police ?

I think we need a lie down in a darkened room !

 

Thats easy.  These are smart police.  They wait for four other smart police to show up before doing anything

[lvr181]

4 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

LoS Smart Police ?

I think we need a lie down in a darkened room !

 

 "...Smart Police?" - is an oxymoron?  

[LivinLOS]

Smart enough to turn cell cameras off ??

[Dukeleto]

4 hours ago, Clamhua said:

Isn't the headline an oxymoron?

 

Indeed! And there are a few in the photo too.

 

[tandor]

4 hours ago, wxpwzrd said:

If the constant propaganda out of the Thai government wasn't so sad, I would be laughing at this topic.

 

 

...Army V Police.....i think Army well ahead at present.

[elgordo38]

5 hours ago, HiSoLowSoNoSo said:

Officers will also be trained how to use mobile phones to access the National Police database.

Call in Fred Flintstone they are ready to assume command of. 

[elgordo38]

3 hours ago, jamesbrock said:

I honestly don't believe what I just read. I can't even. The level of stupid continues to plumb new depths!

What did Forest Gump say? Stupid is as stupid does

[elgordo38]

30 minutes ago, LivinLOS said:

Smart enough to turn cell cameras off ??

They did not read the instructions on the camera's "Batteries not included"

[elgordo38]

48 minutes ago, silent said:

Smart Police? Does that mean in future when I'm pulled over at the nightly spot check on my street, I won't scare both of us again when he looks at the 0 reading and whines"you sure you no drinky one maybe two beer"

The meter never lies or does it?

[harleyclarkey]

They want to get taller cops to carry those staffs in their belts!

 

 

[silent]

1 minute ago, elgordo38 said:

The meter never lies or does it?

You must be a trainer here.

 

[elgordo38]

Just now, silent said:

You must be a trainer here.

 

 

2 minutes ago, silent said:

You must be a trainer here.

 

Please elaborate what do I train???

[tails]

 now I am looking forward to day when I see a photo of a thai policeman running up the highway after a motorbike with one of those blue poles

[waldroj]

Smart police? 

 

Rearrange the letters and you will get closer to the truth:

 

Polemic Rats! 

[silent]

1 minute ago, elgordo38 said:

 

Please elaborate what do I train???

Police - common sense

[elgordo38]

2 minutes ago, tails said:

 now I am looking forward to day when I see a photo of a thai policeman running up the highway after a motorbike with one of those blue poles

Kind of reminds one of the days of King Arthur and Sir Lancelot. Jousting anyone?

[silent]

1 minute ago, elgordo38 said:

Kind of reminds one of the days of King Arthur and Sir Lancelot. Jousting anyone?

As King Arther said to the knights of the square table, a battle of wits against someone with their sword stuck in stone is about as challenging as taunting a retarded child, or another old man with Alzheimer's disease. 

[joboss]

6 hours ago, craigt3365 said:

LOL.  I was going to post exactly the same thing.  What's going to happen when there is only one policeman around to deal with a yaba crazed guy?  Tazer! 5555

Glok 17 Gen4 

[farcanell]

2 hours ago, SOTIRIOS said:

....*** am I the only one who has to try up to 10x to get something posted.....???

 

***

 

..as for this story.....Is there anything really new that they are introducing....???

 

Yes.... Smart police 

[farcanell]

6 hours ago, craigt3365 said:

LOL.  I was going to post exactly the same thing.  What's going to happen when there is only one policeman around to deal with a yaba crazed guy?  Tazer! 5555

 

Use the stick to beat the subject into submission.

[grumbleweed]

Putting the words "smart" and "police" in the same sentence is just begging for it

[bamukloy]

Smart hmmm

 

Edited September 10, 2016 by bamukloy
innaproprite pic choice

[Mook23]

6 hours ago, Thian said:

 

Sure. Sure...

[Steiner]

Are those poles going to be retractable / folding, spring loaded perhaps?
Are they going to be full size and carried vertically on motorcycles like the conductors for a bumper car?

 

I'm thinking they have been watching too many marvel movies and gone a bit 'Asgard gate keeper' with this idea.

Expect them to have a glowing Tesseract style light at the tip and be painted gold.

 

Oh please let this happen...

 

On a serious note, this is highly relevant policing, the number of times I've come across man eating snakes on the way back from the 7/11!

If I had a baht for every time that's happened...

[Golden Triangle]

Smart Police - a misnomer if ever there was one 

[denkiblue555]

I think they are making a cheap imitation of the latest Japanese Police technology... 

 

 

[denkiblue555]

19 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

Smart Police - a misnomer if ever there was one 

 

Oxymoron?