Thailand immigration police aim at foreign criminals including online and telephone

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Clipping the wings of travelling crooks

In person, online, or on the phone, foreign crime is rife

Published: 14 Jan 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

The arrest last week of a US national suspected of stealing cash and valuables from a resort marked the start of an ambitious campaign by immigration police to crack down on transnational criminals this year.

Panu: Blitz on transnational gangs

The Immigration Bureau has declared it will weed out as many transnational criminals as it can in 2013 after some of them were found to have used Thailand as a base to commit crimes, bureau chief Panu Kerdlappol said.

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dickemery
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Discussion 16 : 14 Jan 2013 at 09.3116
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in recent times in phuket,l have notice a big increase in foreigner crimes and violence,especially those choosing to learn muay thai boxing ,it attracts thugs who want to go back to their countries as hard men,but also alot of eastern block criminals laudering their black market money,but the police force also needs to get their own house in order,as criminals buys their own justices ?
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dao
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Discussion 15 : 14 Jan 2013 at 09.2615
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This paints a perfect picture of how useless are police really are .
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Discussion 14 : 14 Jan 2013 at 09.1914
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If organised crime is not such a problem in Thailand people would take their family here instead of other locations in Asia. Thailand really need to weed out the trash and black money and bring in quality visitors and real transparent income. Weeding means taking out their roots so that they don't ever sprout again, not just fresh painting the facade of an old house.
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Discussion 13 : 14 Jan 2013 at 09.1213
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Thailand is a den for criminals due to high level corruption in the senate, government, and police force. They all have a hand in deals with criminals. Thailand need to clean up corruption in the police force and the government first. There are also corrupt judges, village headmen, tambons etc., corruption is everywhere. Violent red shirts and simple uneducated people are bribed to vote. The country will shortly turn into a police state controlled by an ex-policeman currently living in Dubai. Nobody to stop them is there?
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Discussion 12 : 14 Jan 2013 at 08.5712
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Ms donut, me too. But how do you feel about Thai killers and cheaters and human traffickers who go to other countries to be criminals? To me, criminals are criminals, and there are many, many Thai criminals. You seem to think there are none.
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Discussion 11 : 14 Jan 2013 at 08.3111
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Haven't the police got enough to do NOT catching Thai criminals?

D1 I take it that you live a perfect existence where only Thais are right all the time. Have you NEVER been to places like Phuket, Pattaya, Bangkok etc where foreigners are cheated, robbed and murdered and NOTHING is done by the police?
Having said that the vast majority of Thais are NOT criminals but very nice people.
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Discussion 10 : 14 Jan 2013 at 08.2610
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Well, while all those groups are a start, it is no secret that there are scam artists here from all countries including USA ans Canada and Europe and Australia as well. And As D3 points out it is the police brown mafia that allows it. (for a piece of the action)
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Discussion 9 : 14 Jan 2013 at 08.209
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Regarding ID fraud, an Australian news program did a story on a shop outside Khao San Road police station doing copies of driving licences, passports and other forms of ID. When the stall owner was asked if the Thai police know about this the shop owner replied 'yes, we pay them a lot of money'
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Discussion 8 : 14 Jan 2013 at 07.498
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The case of the US citizen arrested for stealing in Koh Samui is plain weird. He drugged 3 staff and opened 52 hotel safes (normally in guests rooms) without being spotted by any other guest or staff then travelled to BKK, all for 3K. The odds are high this is a scam by "the staff"

Now we have a typical knee-jerk reaction from the BIB. An all knowing official reels off an impressive list of baddies and plans a crackdown. It begs the question Mr Policeman , if you knew all this before what have you been doing. Cynics might say there is a budget motive somewhere.

In the meantime child porn is still for sale on the streets of BKK .
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Discussion 7 : 14 Jan 2013 at 07.457
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BTW how about that Belgian Catholic priest/pimp operating in Pattaya?
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