News Forum - 3 Thai police suspended for soliciting bribes in e-cigarettes case

[Thaiger]

Three police officers in the Hat Yai district of Songkla, a southern province of Thailand, are under investigation for soliciting bribes from three men caught crossing into Thailand with e-cigarettes. The three victims revealed that the police asked for 10,000 baht from each of them to waive penalties. Pachara Sirithorn revealed on Facebook that he and two of his friends were arrested by police officers for having three e-cigarettes and two bottles of e-vaping liquid at 10.40pm on September 3 at a police checkpoint in front of a petrol station in the Klong Hae sub-district, Hat Yai district, Songkla province. […]

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[TeddY]

And at the same time people are smoking marijuana legally all over Thailand...the logic of it escapes me.

[Pinga]

Enter any nightclub in Thailand and you'll find dozens if not hundreds of people with vapes. It's completely taken over now and tons of people have switched over from cigarettes to vapes. It's becoming a huge problem for non-smokers as they vape freely in non-smoking rooms, and poor management does not understand this needs to be stopped and lets them. A room is either smoking or non-smoking - there's no "no cigarettes but vapes ok" middle ground - it's all the same toxins!!

[Pinga]

On 9/15/2022 at 12:12 AM, TeddY said:

And at the same time people are smoking marijuana legally all over Thailand...the logic of it escapes me.

Technically not legal to smoke in public. In practice they do, and no one is stopping them.

[HiuMak]

On 9/14/2022 at 4:35 PM, Thaiger said:

Three police officers in the Hat Yai district of Songkla, a southern province of Thailand, are under investigation for soliciting bribes from three men caught crossing into Thailand with e-cigarettes. The three victims revealed that the police asked for 10,000 baht from each of them to waive penalties. Pachara Sirithorn revealed on Facebook that he and two of his friends were arrested by police officers for having three e-cigarettes and two bottles of e-vaping liquid at 10.40pm on September 3 at a police checkpoint in front of a petrol station in the Klong Hae sub-district, Hat Yai district, Songkla province. […]

Nothing to complain if you get away easy from the original fine of 30,000Baht and risks jail term.