Thai Police: How many more bad apples left to find?

[whatawonderfulday]

[localczar]

"How many more bad apples are there out there?"

 

Just look in any police box, station or police office....you will find the apples.

[elgordo38]

1 hour ago, toybits said:

A serious meth lab can produce a hundred kgs per day. Twenty eight kgs of meth is not even a days production. How many meth labs are there?  Be serious in the search and find those meth labs - not small time drug runners.

Somebody else making tooo much sense and giving me a headache. 

[chainarong]

There's a few bad apples yet to come , well quite a few to come , keep digging towards the bottom of the barrel or in this case top of the tree...............................

[greenchair]

In the last couple of years, we never seem to hear about corruption or bad things by the army. It seems they really are the way, the truth and the light. 

Maybe they should replace all the police with army and see how the Thai people fair. 

[CantSpell]

Now we know why they hardly ever arrest the "big fishes"....

 

It is them, big fishes 

 

This one must have crossed an even bigger fish... 

[nakhonandy]

Do they actually have something like an internal affairs department? 

[uchibenkei]

Good job.  Good arrest.  Got some junk off the streets hopefully.

[wakeupplease]

9 hours ago, fruitman said:

Just start checking the ones with a very big car/house....or is that too harsh for Thailand?

An even quicker way is look at the size of the gut, a real givaway

[balo]

Good job by the drug police. Maybe they save a few more lifes.

Shame on you for criticizing them when they try to do something good, get rid of dangerous drugs .

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

9 hours ago, LannaGuy said:

the apple never falls far from the apple tree

 

They caught one apple. But what they really should do, is throw away the entire barrel!

 

[bangrak]

'Thai Police: How many more bad apples left to find?': IMHO, this title is a very good example of what is wrong. The question already, in itself, is an inversion! The problem with the RTP, as with most/all of the Thai officialdom as a matter of fact, not being: own many rotten apples are in the basket, but, rather: how many sound and spotless apples might there be (left) in the basket?

I'm afraid, when taken on a strict principial base: not-a-single-one! How do I justify such a sharp opinion? Quite simply: 1) is there one single police officer in the whole force who does not know about some corrupt practices, but does keep his mouth shut about these; 2) is there any member of the force who does refuse getting an, erm, extra pay-out on top of the official salary?

Granted, the police force is underpaid. Clearly, it was, originally, looong ago, part of the system elaborated: the ones who hired and paid them were no doubt not wealthy enough/stingy, but there is more to it: they gave the 'police' of the time a right to pay themselves 'on' the local population (for some part)... The typical 'win-win' situation: money saved (less to spend from the collected tax-money), and, the 'complement' earned was linked to local situations, so kept under control (and binding the 'policeman' to the turf he had been posted at).  

I have never heard or seen anything from anyone who, really, truly, wanted (when he could have, what I seriously doubt, when it was only because of the mega-piles of money involved) to 'change and reform' the RTP, ...or by the way any other part of the officialdom, radically, and in depth! Alas, no need to guess why that is... Augias' stable are going to stink generations longer, I'm afraid...

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

28 kilos huh???

 

Wonder how long that's going to stay in the police evidence locker, or if it even ever made it there in the first place?

 

 

[dinsdale]

[bangrak]

21 minutes ago, balo said:

Good job by the drug police. Maybe they save a few more lifes.

Shame on you for criticizing them when they try to do something good, get rid of dangerous drugs .

 

'balo': Do you, yourself, believe what you wrote? When so, I'm afraid you don't have a clue about what's happening in the LoS. Sorry, I'm not going to write here what all too many know very well, but also know the risks for one to be too 'knowledgeable'...

[Get Real]

How many bad apples. Yep! As I thought, I can´t even count the trees.

[bangrak]

11 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

The more important question is what will they do after the arrest. Too many show piece arrests of the uniformed kind but little to show in terms of proper and appropriate punishment.  

You, Khun Eric? About the dedicated pretorian guard of ..., of ..., well, of the man and his clan your posts are supposed to favour and defend?

[bangrak]

10 hours ago, whatawonderfulday said:

With a similar number in the RTA and RTN

'whatawonderfulday': A-ha! And why would you think the RTAF is clean, hmm? LOL

[bangrak]

10 hours ago, LannaGuy said:

the apple never falls far from the apple tree

Please, knowledgeable 'LannaGuy', tell us who don't know then who might have planted the apple tree...?

[daveAustin]

11 hours ago, meatboy said:

much easier to sort out the RIPE ones.

Yep. Have ONE hand to spare?

 

'Gov' should rename them the RTMafia. Cut the pretense. 

[daveAustin]

3 hours ago, greenchair said:

In the last couple of years, we never seem to hear about corruption or bad things by the army. It seems they really are the way, the truth and the light. 

Their (out of uniform) transgressions, and there are many, are kept quiet.

[greenchair]

Just now, daveAustin said:

Their (out of uniform) transgressions, and there are many, are kept quiet.

Sorry, but I don't think you really understood my post. 

These are special times , things need to be written in a certain way. 

The Thais call it puit rlob rlob. 

 

[nong38]

I expect he will be moved to an inactive post somewhere in the north.

[balo]

1 hour ago, bangrak said:

When so, I'm afraid you don't have a clue about what's happening in the LoS

Nonsense, do you think any news report in Thailand is like reading fake news?  

28 kilos , and one drug dealer down. That's better than doing nothng.  The drug war has been going on forever ,  all you keyboard warriors are saying all the bad apples are in the police force.

Sure bad apples everywhere but some of them are doing a job .  

 

 

[Cracker2000]

12 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

The more important question is what will they do after the arrest. Too many show piece arrests of the uniformed kind but little to show in terms of proper and appropriate punishment.  

Question is also with the property sized i.e. the drugs ever find it way to an evidence locker?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, balo said:

Nonsense, do you think any news report in Thailand is like reading fake news?  

28 kilos , and one drug dealer down.

 

 

And what makes you think the 28 kilos haven't already found their way into someone else's hands who will turn around and do the same business the "disgraced" cop was planning to do?

 

This kind of stuff only happens because people with power allow it to happen. It's not like they are unaware and uninvolved.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

BTW, I just noticed there was a report in the BKK Post on Feb. 24 re six police officers in Bangkok having been dismissed from the police force after they allegedly were caught selling drugs that had been seized in a prior police raid, where the drugs were seized, but apparently no one arrested.

 

Two captains, a Lt. and three detectives.  WOW, I must be psychic or something!!!

[slapout]

ref; my post #14 The 7 day explantion for the money recieved from Thai bev. was said not to be against BIB rules, guidelines, law, etc..

The person who was reported to be recieving the funds said he had someone else declare the document and they made  a mistake.

He also denied recieving a monthly salary from Thai bev.

Thai bev. also denied paying the man a monthly salary

 

I notice no one denied that he ended up with the funds mentioned, just more noise to cover those involved little a..

[dageurreotype]

On 27/02/2017 at 0:03 PM, slapout said:

Have  we heard the promised reasoning (1 week) from the big policeman explaining why he is getting monthly payments from a beverage company?  I thought not

The old saying ''lead by example'' is good if the example is good. Many, if not most of the RTP do not seem to display that example as they go about their crooked ways.

Indeed we have! According to today's BP he was 'tired and confused' and was found never to have been 'working or accepting money from Thai bev' after all.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Let's see and try to follow this:

 

The first disclosure about his supposed ThaiBev salary came in Mid-December.

 

In the 2-1/2 months since then, he's had MANY opportunities but never once denied he was receiving the ThaiBev funds until now, start of March.

 

If I was NEVER receiving funds from a company, and the claim suddenly popped up in the news media that I was receiving a salary, why in the world would it possibly take someone 2-1/2 months to finally claim the original report was simply a mistake?

 

Is that even remotely credible to the tinyest extent?

 

Plus, along the way, the RTP popped up to publicly claim that there was no legal problem with the guy receiving money from ThaiBev. And the guy himself in early Feb., after missing the first deadline, asked for a month's extension to give more time to prepare the documents he needed to respond to the Ombudsman.

 

If you've never been receiving a salary from some company, you'd know that from day 1. You wouldn't need more time to gather documents. And you wouldn't take 2-1/2 months to finally deny the original report.

 

Perhaps Sanit and the RTP have been taking PR lessons from the Trump Administration regarding the use of "alternate facts."