Expats call for Pattaya clean-up

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Expats call for Pattaya clean-up

A group of foreigners is working with officers to improve life in the resort

Published: 17 Sep 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

A group of expatriates in Pattaya have joined a network aimed at making the infamous city a better place to live and do business.

Crime Suppression Police talk to a group of foreign expatriates about crime in Pattaya. The expatriates agreed that jet ski scams run by mafia-like operators on Pattaya beach is the most critical issue for tourists.

Twelve of the network's 15 members, mostly business figures, met Crime Suppression Division (CSD) officers recently to discuss what one of them called the "cancerous" crime levels in the resort town.

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buster
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Discussion 31 : 17 Sep 2012 at 11.4531
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please pay attention to the phrase, "raising their families with their Thai spouse" in Thailand.
The silent majority has finally spoken.

I am absolutly convinced that the incentive of hurting their image and business is a pretext to realy cry foul about crime protection and unreliable law enforcement.

When i advocated a (political) lobbying agency whom could express the expatriates needs and worries in The Kingdom, I was ridiculed, still I think that this nobel initiative should bare a broader natiowide backbench support.

Our needs and worries are namely just the same as most ordinary Thai citizens have,
lack of security !!!!
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Discussion 30 : 17 Sep 2012 at 10.2930
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Good idea to clean up the mafia .It must be embarrassing for the police to know they dont actually run the town .
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Discussion 29 : 17 Sep 2012 at 10.0629
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Phuket and Koh Samui have the same problems as in Pattaya.
The problem is coming from the Thai administration where corrupted civil servants love bad boys, Thais and foreigners alike, where their businesses are mainly to cheat customers or want to stay afloat in business, they need protection and legal papers through illegal ways and are ready to pay under the table influential people and corrupted civil servants to protect them.
Change the law and send corrupted civil servants in jail and seize theirs assets....then life will be different in Thailand.
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Discussion 28 : 17 Sep 2012 at 09.5128
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I don’t think prostitution is a problem in Pattaya. Why else would tourists and expats go there? Perhaps because of the clean beaches and tranquil atmosphere?
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Discussion 27 : 17 Sep 2012 at 09.5127
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Don’t worry D10 you will not find any group of foreigner’s drinking water in Bangkok either and for all those seeing Pattaya as the “City of Sin” look around in Bangkok it’s all there a lot bigger maybe better hidden.
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Discussion 26 : 17 Sep 2012 at 09.4726
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A group of 15 foreigners out of a couple of hundred thousand or more will not make a difference; cleaning-up a city (place) is the responsibility of the (local) Government and not the foreigners. I don’t mean foreigners should not talk about it but listening to them is another story.
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Discussion 25 : 17 Sep 2012 at 09.2925
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For those that have written that prostitution is the biggest problem, could you explain how? I assume those people are refering to the go-go and beer bars and the people that work in them. How are they a bigger problem than the jetski operators who scam foreigners and then threaten violence? While the police look on and then advise the victims to pay up and avoid trouble, so they can get their cut.
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Discussion 24 : 17 Sep 2012 at 09.0324
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Pattaya was indeed built on vice, it was just a sleepy fishing village before the US servicemen where sent there on R n R during the Vietnam war. They came down from Udon Thani, where there already was a established vice industry. Then it just transfered down to Pattaya. The Udon/Isaan - Pattaya "route" is still thriving of course. Had the US military chosen another place to send their soldiers, Pattaya would still be a pretty sleepy place.
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Discussion 23 : 17 Sep 2012 at 08.5423
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D 20 well said and yes 80% of foreign should go for a start then followed by 90% of the Police 90% City Hall Office and then may be you can start to move forward
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Discussion 22 : 17 Sep 2012 at 08.5322
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Why would anyone in Pattaya (or anywhere else in Thailand) talk to the police to solve a decade old scam? Do these farangs really think the police do not know about it? Do they think the police are doing anything against the criminals? There might be in total 20 jet-ski operators on the Pattaya and Jomtien beaches. It would be enough to have one honest police officer per jet-sky vendor (maybe with a camera) to permanently erase this problem. Does this happen? No! Why? I guess they can’t find 20 honest police officers in Pattaya…
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