News Forum - Thai customs end intrusive frisking of designer-brand wearers at airports

[Thaiger]

The Thai Customs Department has officially put an end to the embarrassing and intrusive practice of frisking travellers passing through border control with designer-brand items at airports. The department said the searches were a burden for travellers. According to the deputy director of the Customs Department, Phanthong Loykunlanan, the department has abolished frisking tourists to …

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[Marc26]

I haven't heard of the frisking

 

But my and her friends say they have to take receipts with them for expensive bags they purchased outside Thailand and show them that they live outside Thailand.........

 

They are pretty aggressive with that they say

[TSS]

way to greet the 'well heeled" tourists you were luring not so long ago. a frisk/patdown and cash shakedown. You shameless greedy idiots