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    Pattaya - Police discuss foreign criminals

    Problem Foreigners Discussed at Meeting

    A meeting was held at The Green Park Resort on 12th April with many Police divisions and foreign businessmen attending to discuss about the problems relating to illegal activities carried out by foreigners in Thailand.


    Since the recent arrest of drug dealer Miss Sonnoi Pholjaroen which involved Paul Bernard Mcateer from Northern Ireland, it is clear that many foreigners that travel as tourists are doing illegal activities here in the Kingdom of Thailand.
    This meeting was held to discuss how officials can inspect foreigners’ behavior in Thailand.
    At the moment foreigners are already checked on arrival at the airport when they arrive and if they are on the blacklist then they will deported. However, there are many foreign criminals who still come through.
    Hotels are obliged to report foreign guests to the Immigration Department. However, there are many guest houses and small apartments that don’t know about this law and more announcements must be made to them to cooperate for easier inspections when needed.

    In general, most foreigners stay amongst groups of their own nationalities. They do activities together and some even register their residence according to the law when they buy properties as a company.
    This makes their residence a “private zone” and is difficult to inspect because these foreigners would say that others are not allowed to enter being private property. The authorities would be required to acquire a search warrant which is a lengthy process.
    Banglamung District Chief announced that there shouldn’t be any places that are not allowed for the police to enter for a search any more. The only places that police in Thailand cannot search are embassies.
    A suggestion was made at the meeting that each group of nationalities should have a leader so that the police could contact directly if there was a criminal element suspected from people of that nationality.

    All this was discussed at the meeting and more work will be done on how to solve the problems of foreign mafias and terrorists that enter the country as tourists to do illegal activities in Thailand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    A suggestion was made at the meeting that each group of nationalities should have a leader so that the police could contact directly if there was a criminal element suspected from people of that nationality.
    Wonder if they'll recruit from the farang police volunteers for the post

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Banglamung District Chief announced that there shouldn’t be any places that are not allowed for the police to enter for a search any more
    Fcuk that. Who want's dirty bent coppers coming round your place to rummage amongst your personal stuff whenever they feel like it?

    Thai police are fokin scum of the highest order.

    If they have a good enough reason they should get search warrant wothout too much trouble.

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    Heli, I can tell you the mere fact of not having a search warrant doesn't stop them at all, they were quite happy to run though my place, as they felt like. The fact that they didn't find ANYTHING didn't warrant an apology or any consideration.

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    Yeah, civil rights are really bad for the police.

    And, DD, already applied for the post of leader of the british in Thailand?

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    Quote Originally Posted by peterpan
    Heli, I can tell you the mere fact of not having a search warrant doesn't stop them at all,
    Pattaya they are quite strict on search warrants now, takes a max of 24 hours at the court on Thappraya road to get one.

    Quote Originally Posted by Fabian
    And, DD, already applied for the post of leader of the british in Thailand?
    Naa, I aint getting involved in that shite, you either end up lieing for people or grassing them up, dont sound like much fun to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Helicopter View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Banglamung District Chief announced that there shouldn’t be any places that are not allowed for the police to enter for a search any more
    Fcuk that. Who want's dirty bent coppers coming round your place to rummage amongst your personal stuff whenever they feel like it?

    Thai police are fokin scum of the highest order.

    If they have a good enough reason they should get search warrant wothout too much trouble.
    Wonder if these beauties were ever taught about a little-known concept called human rights?

    Total morons, this lot of plods.

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    You got to find this funny, on this page we got news on police that kidnapped and ransomed an American, we got police setting up farangs at the bus station, page 2 we got a policeman that chopped off a karaokes girls arm cos she wouldn't put out for him, and these cnuts want to clamp down on farangs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog View Post
    You got to find this funny, on this page we got news on police that kidnapped and ransomed an American, we got police setting up farangs at the bus station, page 2 we got a policeman that chopped off a karaokes girls arm cos she wouldn't put out for him, and these cnuts want to clamp down on farangs.
    They also want to barge into a falang's home, without a court-authorised search warrant. These clowns are dangerous.

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    Well you didn't actually think you would have any rights in this country did you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    A suggestion was made at the meeting that each group of nationalities should have a leader so that the police could contact directly if there was a criminal element suspected from people of that nationality.
    Aren't they called something like "Ambassador" or "Consul?"

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    ^ I think what they are looking for is actually called a grass

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Well you didn't actually think you would have any rights in this country did you?
    I think we all did at some point but the reality is different to the thought

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog View Post
    Well you didn't actually think you would have any rights in this country did you?
    Too true, unfortunately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    Banglamung District Chief announced that there shouldn’t be any places that are not allowed for the police to enter for a search any more.
    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog
    A suggestion was made at the meeting that each group of nationalities should have a leader so that the police could contact directly if there was a criminal element suspected from people of that nationality.
    So can they go into the chiefs house? Will they have to bring a gift to make sure that the doesn't shrink their heads?

    I will represent Scotland.

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    Mrs Q, I am the Poo Yai for Scotland, report to my house bearing a gift.

    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog View Post
    A suggestion was made at the meeting that each group of nationalities should have a leader so that the police could contact directly if there was a criminal element suspected from people of that nationality.
    Says a lot about the feudal mentality that they think there's a big man for every nationality. Though if they want to mirror thai society what it should say is....

    "each group of nationalities should have a chinese mafia leader so that the police could contact directly if there was a criminal element suspected from people of that nationality."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Begbie
    Mrs Q, I am the Poo Yai for Scotland, report to my house bearing a gift.
    More like the Poo Face.

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    just send the thai police to england to look at foreign criminal activity,
    and the'll soon see that they really don't have too much to woory about.

    hell we let them in house them, let them offend, arrest them then let them go and can't find them untill they reoffend AGAIN.

    me thinks it's a nice story to blame all the bad doings on foreigners again as the wholier than though thai's are all law abiding ctizens.

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    So do they want it to become mandatory to register at the chief of your nationality? Else this would not make much sense (not that it makes anyway).

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    Quote Originally Posted by peterpan
    they were quite happy to run though my place, as they felt like
    I believe that you mentioned yourself, that if only you had the number of a lawyer who could have stepped in and dealt with the police face to face this might have been prevented.

    It seems that having a lawyer on a retainer is critical here?

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    If you are involved in a business here or even have a higher profile, I think its wise to have a relationship with a GOOD legal representative. If i had the foresight to have done so I would have saved myself a few million baht.
    The police will ride over your rights otherwise. e.g. A few of us were having a beer one night when a a group of plain clothes cops, came in asking for one of us (not me) they took him away, then investigated, passport, WP( all legal) etc until they found something to pin on him, took him to the cells over night and he had to bribe his way out with gifts etc pay a fine and was let go next morning.
    His crime, was to piss off one of his well connected fellow employees, who paid the cops to harrass him as retribution.
    In retrospect, like me, we can fall over easily in the face of a few cops slinging around accustations and the possibility of them finding further crimes (for which they will happily set you up) If you have an independant legal rep, they aren't going to be able to intimidate them.

    Have no doubt that, nothing is too low for many of these cops, they will threaten your family, I now know its just the posturing of bullies but at the time when they had my wife bailed up and in tears and one suggesting that some harm may befall my daughters, they can have you shitting. After hearing many similar stories I know know a call to a legal rep would have had them scurrying like the rats they are.

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    Having a good legal friend on call, is a wise form of security in Thailand.

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