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Four agencies to tackle prison drug trade

Four major government agencies have agreed to jointly tackle the drug trade in prison with the Corrections Department being the coordinator, Justice Ministy spokesman Thirachai Wuthitham said Wednesday.

The four agencies are the Corrections Department, Department of Special Investigation (DSI), the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC), and Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo).

Mr Thirachai said a meeting of the four agencies had agreed the Corrections Department should coordinate the joint operation.

Department of Special Investigation director-general Tharit Pengdit (Photo by Tawatchai Kemgumnerd)

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  • Discussion 6 : 09/02/2012 at 01:43 AM6

    Drug dealers have only one nightmare.. some stupid politicians make drugs available for free at hospitals for drug addicts.

  • Discussion 5 : 09/02/2012 at 12:13 AM5

    I wish as much energy would be deployed to fight corruption...

  • dao

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    Discussion 4 : 08/02/2012 at 11:59 PM4

    There are these new inventions called sniffer dogs and metal detectors .Try them .They still work if if you try to pay them off .

  • Discussion 3 : 08/02/2012 at 11:48 PM3

    "the four agencies had agreed the Corrections Department should coordinate the joint operation."

    LOL

    The agency responsible for the situation is put in charge of coordinating the operation to tackle that same situation, which it allowed to develop and persist for many, many years...

    TIT

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    Discussion 2 : 08/02/2012 at 07:48 PM2

    Congratulations - finally public servants doing their jobs and not a politician in sight. As for all the nonsense (from Khun Chalerm) about changing the phone tapping laws - seems these guys already have sufficient powers already

  • Discussion 1 : 08/02/2012 at 07:05 PM1

    He said in the past four months he had sacked 18 warders for involvement in the drug trade and seized more than 1,500 mobile phones in prisons.

    Warders caught involve in drug trade the punishment is only sacked. In other countries warders caught involve in drug trade will become prisoner themselves. Oh!! This is Thailand!!! I just can’t stop laughing.

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