News Forum - RTP to introduce QR code on police guns to prevent theft & misconduct

[Thaiger]

The Royal Thai Police (RTP) plans to introduce a QR code on all police guns so they can track payment and prevent theft and misconduct by officers. The Deputy Commissioner of the RTP, Torsak Sookwimon, revealed to Thairath that Thai police officers do not want to use guns provided by the government because the disbursement process is slow and complicated. Most RTP officers buy their guns. This means a lot of government-owned guns are left lying around. These guns are often appropriated by corrupt cops who steal and sell them, e.g., just like what happened at the Pak Kret Police […]

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[Soidog]

Yeah. That’ll fix the problem. FFS! 

[Lazarus]

5 hours ago, Thaiger said:

The Royal Thai Police (RTP) plans to introduce a QR code on all police guns so they can track payment and prevent theft and misconduct by officers. The Deputy Commissioner of the RTP, Torsak Sookwimon, revealed to Thairath that Thai police officers do not want to use guns provided by the government because the disbursement process is slow and complicated. Most RTP officers buy their guns. This means a lot of government-owned guns are left lying around. These guns are often appropriated by corrupt cops who steal and sell them, e.g., just like what happened at the Pak Kret Police […]

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So this entire time I could have just put a sticker on my house instead of having locks and an alarm system?

[Soidog]

So will putting a QR code on a knife also make it safe? I bought one in Big C a few months ago and that had a bar code on it. I cut my finger removing the bar code so I assume that doesn’t work. But maybe a QR code will