News Forum - Thailand’s new police chief makes drugs and road safety a top priority

[Thaiger]

Despite only having one year to serve, Thailand’s new police chief is ambitiously making drugs and road safety a top priority during his term. Damrongsak Kittiprapas, the 13th national police chief, assumed office at the beginning of this month. According to Bangkok Post, he replaced Suwat Jongyodsuk who retired on September 30. But, his plans to tackle road safety and drugs haven’t been dampened by his short term. His previous successors served for 5 years and 2 years but Damrongsak says he is positive about using his 200,000 officers to carry out his plans. Damrongsak was born in the northern […]

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[Fanta]

I wonder how much money this police chief is worth? 

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

3 hours ago, Thaiger said:

He also created a project to curb road accidents in eight provinces in the northeast. That programme was then adopted by local government organisations nationwide.

Have accident numbers has decreased... ?

[BainaiThai]

He just does not sound like a brown envelope guy to me...any one here have any experience living in an area he policed?

[Manu]

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I would like to improve the police force to become a reliable organisation that people can trust.

Perhaps police corruption should also be added to his top priorities then. But fair enough, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and see the results in a year...

[cowslip]

 

Can we take him seriously??

“If we want to curb the number of road accidents, we have to gather data to analyse the causes. That way we can propose funds to pay officers who work overtime trying to develop the database.”

Damrongsak says road accident data points toward road deaths taking place in places where the people are not residents of the areas.

“I would like to improve the police force to become a reliable organisation that people can trust.”

Without a proper database, you can’t even start to address road safety.

However leaving to the police could be a big mistake.

Then he loses the plot a bit and having said their isn’t sufficient data suggests that there is data that suggests crashes incurred by non-residents.

 

Worldwide, statistics properly gathered suggest that the vast majority of crashes occur with 10 km from home.

 

[Fanta]

15 hours ago, Manu said:

Perhaps police corruption should also be added to his top priorities then. But fair enough, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and see the results in a year...

He only has a year left to “serve”, not decades.