E-Bracelets won't reduce crime

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Published: 3 Feb 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Regarding the article in the Bangkok Post on Friday, ''E-bracelets to keep tabs on teenage cons'', which explains that Corrections Department authorities plan to use electronic bracelets to keep tabs on juvenile delinquents, I don't think this is such a good idea. It seems strangely similar to placing microchips on animals to monitor their movements. What we need are ways to prevent crimes before they happen. For example, we have CCTV cameras all over the nation, but only a fraction of them are monitored around the clock. Therefore, most of them can only help in the arrest of suspects after a crime has been committed. Unless the juveniles who have these E-bracelets are monitored all the time, it will be a waste of money.

RH Suga
Lamphun

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Discussion 7 : 03 Feb 2013 at 14.187
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@DNL

Another son is Minister of Culture. No word on the damage to the image of Thailand.
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Kamnan Poh was only 'on the run' for 7 years if you consider moving about in Chonburi running. Never left the country and his sons have no idea where he is. Laugh? Its a Thai comedy show. And now he has shown up when he needs hospital care.
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"If the country does not follow the rule of law, it will not survive". Wise words .I wonder when politicians ,the police ,and society in general will actually follow it .
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Thailand is showing it's subjectivity and ineptitude with revelations about the Poh case. It took 7 long years to find him, and he was essentially right in his own backyard. Chalerm is already excusing Poh's kids for harboring the criminal, as if Chalerm is the sole judge and jury.
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DNL: Have you ever known any politician or public official to do the honourable thing in Thailand?
Khun Burin: Well said, but can you honestly believe there will ever be a transparent investigation into a senior politician or the Mayor of Pattaya?
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Discussion 2 : 03 Feb 2013 at 07.332
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Khun Burin is absolutely right. But it is again a proof that Thailand is a Police State and not a democracy with separation of powers. (ex) Police generals are ruling this country. Look who's running for the next governor of Bangkok. Thaksin, Chalerm,..... are ex cops. And then I m not even referring to all the (ex) army generals who's names are popping up in functions that normally should be held by civilians.
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Discussion 1 : 03 Feb 2013 at 06.411
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Jack Gilead is, of course, quite inaccurate when he claims to have "read of a bomb that ripped apart the American Embassy in Turkey." Or perhaps he is being (as usual), a bit hyperbolic. There was a bomber. There was a bomb. There was a casualty. The embassy, however, is a hardened site. Substantially bombproof. As are all the newer or retrofitted embassies not only American, but of other nations as well. Sort of like the Japanese Embassy on Witthayu Road. Take a look. The fact that it is believed necessary to bombproof embassies is a different matter and cause for alarm in and of itself.
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