Police serving in the South

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Published: 31 Dec 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Events in Thailand's far South have effectively have come full circle. With a Royal Thai Police decision to hold a lottery and assign losers to the deep South, the situation in important ways returns to the 1970s. That was when police and other civil servants were sent to the South unwillingly. The result was incompetence and poor job performance, followed by resentment by southerners for becoming Bangkok's "dumping ground", followed by violence and terrorism _ a situation pretty much repeated today.

This pretty kettle of fish arose for understandable reasons. The Royal Thai Police headquarters has to come up with 150 investigators to begin service tours in the deep South in coming months.

There are 30 volunteers. National police chief Adul Saengsingkaew plans to choose the rest by lottery. He figures he will have 4,000 names of qualified detectives available for the "lucky" draw on Jan 7. In this case, the lottery "winners" will get the decidedly undesired assignments to Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani provinces.

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geoffo
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Discussion 6 : 31 Dec 2012 at 16.296
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D4 funny you say that. The three state solution - South (Islamic ) , Central ( BKK ) and Issan (Reds)

Not impossible to imagine. Problem is most of the 10 million tax payers ( private & corporate ) are in the Central region.
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Discussion 5 : 31 Dec 2012 at 15.175
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“Senior investigators serving in the South must be both motivated and qualified... “
Well said; but the problem is that there are none...
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Discussion 4 : 31 Dec 2012 at 09.564
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Maybe the solution has been predestined by twin Koreas, Israel/Palestine,
Africa/South Africa - a wall between the new South Thailand and North Thailand ? or
wait for the much anticipated " Chalerm Master Plan " as soon as he gets there, if,
he gets there.
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Victor
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Discussion 3 : 31 Dec 2012 at 09.203
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There is no such thing as random in this country because everything has a price.
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Discussion 2 : 31 Dec 2012 at 09.132
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During the 2010 riots Sae Daeng said Thaksin promised he would become the Armed Forces Commander. SD also said that those who opposed him now would be transferred to the South as punishment.

Is Adul carrying out the same plan ?.

Imagine what effort it will take to not have your name in the draw.
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Discussion 1 : 31 Dec 2012 at 07.411
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It brings to mind what I was told by my sergeants while I was in the UK military.

"If you can't take a joke, then you shouldn't have joined".

The problem with the police, military, civil service or government is that honesty, good work etc means verry little in the way of promotion or good postings. It is who you know or how much you can pay which moves you up the ladder. Sadly for the good gus disillusionment creeps in and the "It really doesn't matter" attitude kicks in and little gets done.
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