Reform of Thai police force on NRSA agenda

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Reform of Thai police force on NRSA agenda

By The Nation

 

Kamnoon Sidhisamarn

 

BANGKOK: -- The National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) will reconvene on Monday and Tuesday to debate four topics, including reform of the Thai police force. 

 

Kamnoon Sidhisamarn, spokesperson for the NRSA whip, said on Sunday that the meeting agenda would also include state administrative reform, media reform, and the reform of biodiversity. 

 

Kamnoon said the NRSA law and justice system reform committee proposed that a mechanism or system be established to oversee and evaluate the work of the Thai police to increase work efficiency and the standards of police services. 

 

The committee said the police must be able to work more collectively and actively with local government officials and the public. 

 

Regarding media reform, Kamnoon said the responsible committee had suggested that a cybersecurity agency be set up to safeguard the country against criminal offences committed via the Internet.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30315859

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-05-22

[harada]

A monumental task.

[tomwct]

Good Luck!

[colinneil]

Reform the RTP. What are they going to do?

Sack the lot of them, and start again is the only thing to do.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

[jaltsc]

"... proposed that a mechanism or system be established to oversee and evaluate the work of the Thai police to increase work efficiency and the standards of police services." 

 

I hope whomever is involved with this system has mastered the art of sleeping with one eye open. 

[darksidedog]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The committee said the police must be able to work more collectively and actively with local government officials.

I think that is a veiled reference to the money being spread around more widely. Anyone who thinks they can clean up the RTP is seriously delusional.

[pentap]

Reform?! Reform dead wood, bad apples...

Rebuild! Start from scratch.

Get rid of lazy. Drunk. Corrupt Police plus the stigma attached to the Police.

Their job is to serve and protect the public, not the public serve them!

[grumbleweed]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

and the reform of biodiversity

Please tell me something has been lost in translation, because compared to the BIB our local rats, snakes and roaches are pillars of virtue. While the banana plants have never once asked for tea money

P.S.

Let's not mention the buffalo 

 

 

 

[yellowboat]

Given how little their actual salary is, they must make ends meet in other ways.  Until that stops, there will be no meaningful reform. 

[YetAnother]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

evaluate the work of the Thai police to increase work efficiency and the standards of police services.

well if that turns out to include quotas, we may end up not liking that

[ezzra]

In Thailand ' reform ' means replace the fat cats with new hungry

ones, for a pay of course...... or, as rural folks put it,

replace a sick cow

with another sick cow....

Edited May 22, 2017 by ezzra

[Hayduke]

Sounds good but….

 

There’s a better than average chance that, if anything is actually done, it will be something vague, meaningless, and completely cosmetic. Like maybe they’ll redo the RTP logo slightly, modify some obscure uniform requirement or arrange a very public ‘purity of thought’ program that all personnel will (in theory) enthusiastically embrace.

 

Then the powers-that-be will pronounce mission accomplished and the RTP as successfully ‘reformed’.

Edited May 22, 2017 by Hayduke

[jerojero]

Uh-huh. Ya Right. Can't wait. See you in a couple decades about it's commencement.

[Saan]

The first step in any reform process is to pay the police a decent wage.

[smutcakes]

The only way the police would be reformed would be if the public demanded it via mass protests, street gatherings etc and it would get very messy. None of the Committee's, military etc have the desire/power to reform the police.

[sweatalot]

Will be difficult to sack 90 % of the BIB, put at least a third of them in prison and then start all over

[mtls2005]

More reforms you will love, or else.

 

Seems odd to have taken them so long to get to police reform?

 

 

[Happyman58]

First thing in reform Stamp out corruption OOps that 60% of the force gone Give them decent money and training that would help also best of luck guys Never happen a but hey u look good in your suiet Must be well paid  Always great to have a meeting is it not?

[Eric Loh]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) will reconvene on Monday and Tuesday to debate four topics, including reform of the Thai police force. 

 

Nothing to see here. Still debating even though corruption perpetrated by the personnel of the RTP is rampant and is daily news. The junta has no will to reform the police as both shared too much corruptions and secrets.  

[gazza4]

5 hours ago, harada said:

A monumental task.

pigs might fly

[elgordo38]

6 hours ago, colinneil said:

Reform the RTP. What are they going to do?

Sack the lot of them, and start again is the only thing to do.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

They are sure trying to teach the media new tricks well old tricks that the junta has up their sleeve. This is a real bone of contention with the junta. They want the media to be an obedient dog that takes a pat on the head and a treat and wags its tail in thanks.  

[elgordo38]

Could the police reform open old wounds between the military and the BIB. Seems like I have seen this idea floated many times in the past but never comes to fruitation. Two gladiators eyeing each other up??

[janpharma]

6 hours ago, Saan said:

The first step in any reform process is to pay the police a decent wage.

Do you really think that if you even double their wages corruption would stop?

[Farang99]

Who is going to reform the reformers?

[YetAnother]

On 5/22/2017 at 7:15 AM, pentap said:

Their job is to serve and protect the public,

not how they see it