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
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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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abbub
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Discussion 6 : 14 Jan 2013 at 07.446
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I clicked thumbs up for PLOY D1: I think the massive thumbs down did not understand...Ploy is being ironic!

I do have to laugh because what will really happen is the Thai gangsters and mafia-like organizations will just get a stronger grip on their already lucrative illegal activities.

They want a monopoly and one way of doing that is getting rid of the competition.
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Discussion 5 : 14 Jan 2013 at 07.365
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ploydonut - "Thai people are too nice to foreigner"

I suspect you're a dupe, but you missed the story about deporting stateless children and turning away the Rhohingya people and the horrible treatment of workers from counties such as Burma. if you think that Thais are too nice to foreigners.
But lots of illegal crooks are here in Thailand and most with the knowledge of police who are bribed.
They should be arrested, the police could start on the lower sois of Sukhumvit.
Perhaps you;re pretty PM can do something about it. Na ka.
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Discussion 4 : 14 Jan 2013 at 06.184
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Just a thought - set up a court for foreign criminals with powers to administer criminal punishment and also with administrative authority to order deportation, as appropriate. Since the police say they are going to come down hard and fast on foreign criminals, so should the courts.

Justice delayed is justice denied. Justice expedited is criminal behavior deterred. IMHO
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Discussion 3 : 14 Jan 2013 at 05.253
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Anyone think to ask the Thai Police why so many criminals from foreign countries make their living here.
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Discussion 2 : 14 Jan 2013 at 05.252
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Whgile I applaud the goals as listed, I do find it rather amazing that the Immigration Police ( a divisioin of the Royal Thai police ) are able to deal with the thousands of people they alledge come here to commit crime or use this country as a base. The RTP work ethics rely on confessions rather than good investigative work, good criminals are unlikely to confess to anything apart from being a criminal. Recent serious crime such as murders of foreigners have shown the RTP in a bad light, what difference will a few soundbites make to the overall competentcy of any particular division of a perceived incompetent corrupt Police force.
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Discussion 1 : 14 Jan 2013 at 04.541
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Thai people are too nice to foreigner, and they take advantage of our nice, kind, honest, smiling, hospitality, beautiful, welcoming, peaceful, wonderful, warm way of life by make the crime. It make me sad and hurt so much that they do this thing in our country :(
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