Database eases search for suspects

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Database eases search for suspects

Warrants system links all law enforcement agencies, boosts work with foreign cops

Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Police have revealed there are close to 150,000 outstanding arrest warrants for criminal suspects who remain at large.

Pongsapat: Taking aim at backlog

Courts can approve the issuing of warrants, while multiple agencies with investigating powers can ask courts to approve them.

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mogy71
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Discussion 17 : 13 Aug 2012 at 23.1717
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Is there a warrant for TS ?
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Discussion 16 : 13 Aug 2012 at 21.5716
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Last April, I spent a morning at a Bangkok city centre police station chatting to a detective I know.
He showed me the POLIS system... No-one in his office (narcotics) had ever used it or even knew how to use it. It was a very dated operating system and completely useless at tracking the two people we tried to find.

On the other hand he did give me a copy of the police magazine and showed me the pages where 'models' are featured, along with their pictures and phone numbers.
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Discussion 15 : 13 Aug 2012 at 12.4815
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The other important jobs to do must be to collect tea money to pay for the large house and Mercedes that most of them seem to have.
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Discussion 14 : 13 Aug 2012 at 11.5314
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Seeing that it is their job to arrest convicts at large, what more important jobs do they have to do exactly?
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Discussion 13 : 13 Aug 2012 at 10.4613
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Unlike other respondents, I do believe that this will get implemented (if only because it will cost a good chunk of money to do it properly - hence a little tea money will also flow). The real questions however are around the procedures for initial data cleaning (undoubtedly many of the warrants will be obsolete, duplicated or for misspelt names and aliases) and ensuring that data is kept up-to-date. In my experience, a database with too high a proportion of garbage very quickly stops being used at all.
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Discussion 12 : 13 Aug 2012 at 10.0712
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The concept is great, but as soon as he said he had formed a committee ... I knew it was a lost cause.
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Discussion 11 : 13 Aug 2012 at 09.3911
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Actions speak louder than words .Hows Duangchalerm ?
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Discussion 10 : 13 Aug 2012 at 09.3010
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First ..make a cleanup in the police service then focus on more then 146,000 warrants ...what where they doing in those 10 years ...whos in charge ??? ...they just woke-up this morning and said wow we have a job to do maybe we need more staff /...euhhh.... always soo amaze to read those news
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Discussion 9 : 13 Aug 2012 at 09.239
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"I don't want to put pressure on policemen for now because they have other important jobs to do too," he said.

Yes, he's right. It's far more important to cheat on tests, collect bribes at check points, adjudicate with the local mafias, and in general, turn a blind eye towards real law enforcement.
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Discussion 8 : 13 Aug 2012 at 09.148
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Does this include the offenders with parliamentary immunity?
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