Pattaya Officials Continue Crackdown on Vagrants to Protect City Image

Pattaya City officials have continued their efforts to apprehend vagrants who negatively impact the city’s image as a tourist destination, following the directives of Pattaya City Mayor, Mr. Poramase Ngampichet.


In the morning on August 24th, 2024, officials from the city’s Special Affairs Department received a report from concerned citizens about two vagrants soliciting money from passersby in front of a convenience store on Third Road in North Pattaya. The officials immediately went to the scene to meet the two.

Upon arrival, officials found an unidentified homeless woman, approximately 40-50 years old, along with her 8-year-old son. The woman claimed that she had previously been married to a Scottish man who sent her monthly financial support. However, after losing her ATM card, she no longer had access to the funds to support herself and her son. The authorities arranged for her and her son to be processed with the local homeless center according to the regulations.


Later the same day, officials went to meet another homeless woman at Wat Chaimongkol in South Pattaya. The woman, identified only as Mrs. Ratchanee, was provided with assistance and transferred to the Chonburi Homeless Shelter. The officials said they will continue to rigorously address homeless issues in other areas of the city.

Pattaya Officials Continue Crackdown on Vagrants to Protect City Image - The Pattaya News

Well, if they want to help homeless women there seems no dearth of them by the palm trees on Beach Road promenade most times of the day. Poor folk hang about listlessly and only seem to perk up whenever a foreign man passes. I think the Indian chaps are doing the best they can and try to engage these wretched women in conversation to raise morale.

Something needs to be done. It’s a sad spectacle indeed, many of the ladies are evidently down at heel and cannot afford to buy new clothes to fit their thickening waists and heifer thighs having to rely on dresses they must have bought over twenty years ago they’re so tight and scarcely restrain their décolletage.