Thread: Thailand’s Education Ministry Orders Mandatory Criminal Background Checks For Foreign

CHIANG RAI – Education Ministry official finally announced Monday, that all School administrators have been instructed to run background checks on foreigners applying for work as teachers to weed out convicted pedophiles.

Assistant Minister Thirakiat Charoensethasilp said the directive was sent to every educational institution in the country after the British embassy recently received a report that a British national with a record of child sexual abuse in the UK had applied for a job as a foreign-language teacher in Thailand.

Additionally, in the case of British applicants, schools were advised to check the UK’s Association of Chief Police Officers’ (Acro) Criminal Records Office website to determine if they have any sort of criminal record and require they present an Acro police certificate.

That is a way of screening foreigners to prevent students from becoming crime victims, Mr Thirakiart told Daily News Online.

“Those with records of child sexual abuse in the United Kingdom or other countries often look for a job as a teacher or a volunteer. Many of them choose to look for a teaching job or other jobs concerning children,” he added.

Thee Pawangkanont, chief Office of the Basic Education Commission’s child-assistance center, said Obec had sent a letter containing the instructions to directors of the offices of primary and secondary education in all its educational zones.

Thailand?s Education Ministry Orders Mandatory Criminal Background Checks for Foreign Teachers ? Chiang Rai Times English Language Newspaper

About time, some teflers will be crapping their pants

Some schools already do background checks so I'm informed, though working for govt school don't.

Background checks are a good idea.

Suspected British paedophile laughs after being arrested while working as teacher in Thailand


Smiling: Robert David Hastings had been living in Thailand since 2005

A suspected British paedophile working as a teacher at a school in Thailand laughed as he was arrested by police.

Robert David Hastings is wanted for 12 counts of sexual abuse and molesting girls under the age of 14 in the UK.

Suspected British paedophile laughs after being arrested while working as teacher in Thailand - Mirror Online

No pointing finger, obviously not the right guy.

There all laughing,maybe the deal is already been made, everyoness happy.

Originally Posted by Black Heart

Background checks are a good idea.

Agree but should not be just for foreigners.

Originally Posted by Horatio Hornblower

There all laughing,maybe the deal is already been made, everyoness happy.

The man with the mike is obviously doing a turn and cracking the jokes!

If Britain and other countries would start putting the identities and criminal histories of all convicted pedophiles online for anyone to see, as the US has been doing for years, they'd do a great service to the World. Identifying anyone convicted of a serious sex crime in the US is about as simply as Googling their name. Occasionally we do some things right.

FBI — Sex Offender Registry
https://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/registry
The National Sex Offender Public Website—coordinated by the Department of Justice—enables every citizen to search the latest information from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan's_Law

The idea that a convicted sex offender has any right to privacy regarding his/her criminal history is as stupid as gun control.

Mistaken identity?

There's actually an intentional task force investigating methods in which to protect children better. They do recommend databases and back ground checks, but not open to any idiot on the Internet.

Protection of persons data,should be kept under the same guidelines as it is now, I agree any person working with children should have to provide the relevant information. in applying for Employment etc.

The Info can be obtained easily enough if needed,under strict legal conditions for legit purposes.

Originally Posted by BobR

Occasionally we do some things right.

But this is not one of those things

Originally Posted by Horatio Hornblower

Protection of persons data,should be kept under the same guidelines as it is now, I agree any person working with children should have to provide the relevant information. in applying for Employment etc.

The Info can be obtained easily enough if needed,under strict legal conditions for legit purposes.

I am going to have a lie down now as I think I agree with Horatio on this one

Okay, so a British citizen is booked on a charge of paedophilia.
They are released on bond.

At no time do British authorities take possession of the UK-issued passport or place travel notification at it's Custom Control that passport holder is on bond and must appear at HRM Court on such-and-such a date ???

If this is true the system supports the spread of Brit-perps across the globe.
Is this possible ?

Originally Posted by Happy As Larry

But this is not one of those things

Why not? Pedophiles are never cured and no about of punishment will deter them from doing it again. What rational reason exists for not publishing the identities of those who have been convicted beyond a reasonable doubt in a criminal trial?

No mistaken identity either, most of the databases included a picture of the convicted person.

Originally Posted by BobR

a serious sex crime in the US

except people end up on that register for things like urinating in a public place and mooning ( chucking a browneye )

lives close to destroyed for things that aren't even close to sex offences

I think it's a good thing to rule out pedo's from teachin' kids here in thailand. However, as has been pointed out, a LOT of schools here (both government and private) pull their foreign engrish teachers thru agencies, with no vetting, no background check, sometimes no degree, no nothing...

I did have a question for kingwilly..

Originally Posted by kingwilly

an intentional task force

Umm, just what is that exactly?

^ one that does not just leave all the work to buddha ?

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by BobR

a serious sex crime in the US

except people end up on that register for things like urinating in a public place and mooning ( chucking a browneye )

lives close to destroyed for things that aren't even close to sex offences

Not that I've ever known of, even solicitation of prostitution is excluded in most states because its only a misdemeanor. There are abuses in every system, but the requirements to make this list and be required to register with the police department wherever you move are quite specific.

The so called terrorism and no fly lists are a different story, but the sex list requires a felony conviction, which is supposed to be "beyond a reasonable doubt." Someone wrongfully on a list would also have recourse through the courts.

That smile on the idiot teacher above reeks of being a total psychopath.

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by BobR

a serious sex crime in the US

except people end up on that register for things like urinating in a public place and mooning ( chucking a browneye )

lives close to destroyed for things that aren't even close to sex offences

No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US: VIII. Consequences of Registration and Community Notification Laws for Registrants and Their Loved Ones


Walter D., 58, unknowingly solicited an underage prostitute in 1986, for which he was jailed in Washington State. Released from prison in 1992, he is required to register and his picture appears on the state online sex offender registry. Walter has tried to hold down a job as a computer technician, but he has been fired at least four times after colleagues found his profile on Washington State’s online registry. Walter has a hard time finding landlords who will rent to him, and when he has found an apartment, within weeks flyers with his registry profile, downloaded from the online registry, appear all over his neighborhood. Walter told Human Rights Watch, “I will never be given a second chance. It doesn’t matter how long I don’t reoffend, I will always be a sex offender in everyone else’s eyes.”

Problem is in America anyone can get your record info.

https://teakdoor.com/the-teakdoor-lou...t-you-usa.html (What a Dollar can get you in the USA)

^^ I read about a woman in that group in Miami that could not live anywhere She was convicted of a sex offense as she had fallen asleep on the couch during a B day party and her shirt rode up exposing her breasts to the kids.

^Coupled with the law that states you cannot live within x number of miles of a school or playground means that I believe she lives under some bridge or other as it turns out there was no urban places that were less than x miles from schools/playgrounds

Originally Posted by PeeCoffee

Okay, so a British citizen is booked on a charge of paedophilia.
They are released on bond.

At no time do British authorities take possession of the UK-issued passport or place travel notification at it's Custom Control that passport holder is on bond and must appear at HRM Court on such-and-such a date ???

If this is true the system supports the spread of Brit-perps across the globe.
Is this possible ?

Nope.