News Forum - Thailand’s parliament police petition against new uniforms

[Thaiger]

Thailand’s parliamentary police aren’t seeing the point of their new uniforms scheduled for next year. The country’s roughly 200 parliamentary police officers are usually issued with 2 sets of uniforms, each costing about 5,000 baht. The budget for new uniforms would altogether require at least 2 million baht. Yesterday, about 60 parliament police officers submitted a petition to House Speaker Chuan Leekpai, protesting what they call a waste of taxpayers’ money. Some Thai officials are supporting the petition. An MP from Thailand’s Pheu Thai party, Khachit Chainikhom, told the press that uniform changes should have the consent of those who […]

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[HolyCowCm]

Talk about a law-suit.

[Kuni_Sean]

Hopefully they change the color of their uniforms.  Maybe its just me,  but those brown uniforms are just plain ugly. 

[Fanta]

Probably an element of truth in this story. My brother in law is a cop. He receives the standard issue uniforms free of charge and stores them with his cleaning rags. He pays to get his own uniforms made. Might be the same story with the parliament police who may have just paid for their own tailor made uniforms 6 months ago and aren’t keen on paying again.’

[Guest1]

26 minutes ago, Kuni_Sean said:

Hopefully they change the color of their uniforms.  Maybe its just me,  but those brown uniforms are just plain ugly. 

Yep, they could switch from SA color to SS color? 

 

[Manu]

40 minutes ago, Kuni_Sean said:

Hopefully they change the color of their uniforms.  Maybe its just me,  but those brown uniforms are just plain ugly. 

All uniforms are ugly.

[Giltee]

The new uniforms probably have more room to hang medals and baubles. Thais just love uniforms and even after they leave the service they still hang onto those titles.