New Army graft complaint centres ‘not a duplication’

By The Nation

 

 

The Army’s graft complaint centres do not overlap with existing anti-graft bodies, they merely expand channels to reach the public, National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) spokesperson Colonel Winthai Suvaree said in defending the initiative on Wednesday.

 

The military-based complaint centres were set up at Army bases nationwide on the orders of Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha last Thursday. Hotline phone numbers and postal addresses were also made available to receive public complaints.

 

Winthai said that these new channels would act only as receiving portals. Matters may be screened for accountability purposes before being forward to anti-graft agencies including the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) and its underling, the National Anti-Corruption Administrative Centre.

 

Secretary-generals of these two agencies would take part in screening information received from people so as to lubricate the anti-graft system from the very start, the spokesperson said.

 

The Army’s complaint centres would play mostly supporting roles to those agencies, he added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30321226

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-7-19

lubricate the anti-graft system from the very start,! Is that the same as greaseing someones palm ?

How many can they build, and how quickly? Hand out gifts to people reporting graft! Start now! Link the price of the gift to the amount of the fraud. A free car for the really big stuff, a toaster for traffic fine rip offs.

not duplication; just same ineffectiveness

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Army’s graft complaint centres do not overlap with existing anti-graft bodies, they merely expand channels to reach the public, National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) spokesperson Colonel Winthai Suvaree said in defending the initiative on Wednesday.

these guys are priceless

arm anti graft bodies need to be separate from the existing ones as they target different people.

On 7/19/2017 at 7:20 PM, snoop1130 said:

Matters may be screened for accountability purposes before being forward to anti-graft agencies

Screening by the military shouldn't be allowed.

Screening allows the military to remove any references to the military its self, any of its "surrogates," or major political supporters. It should only be collecting raw information for transmittal purposes.

Furthermore, as the military controls the Executive and Legislative branches of government, it can screen out any complaint perceived injurious to the Prayut government.

Screening also gives the military an opportunity for the purposes of retribution or intimidation to identify and track those accusers who might be considered a threat to any potential military/government corruption.

Any military organisation's central skill is destruction of infrastructure, property and other assets and people.  Why would anyone expect members of any military to be able to demonstrate competence in any activiity outside their core training missions?

It's funny - in a very sad way- to see so many young Thais duped into the belief that a uniform and enforced haircuts magically combine to turn ordinary fallible people into supeior human beings.