A recent case involving Taiwanese actress Charlene An has drawn attention to police discipline and how it could affect Thailand's reputation.
BANGKOK: Taiwanese actress Charlene An had returned from holidays in Bangkok with her friends and decided to share her unsettling experience as a tourist.An, who has nearly 380,000 followers on Instagram and Facebook, put out a series of social media posts on police extortion, which quickly turned into a corruption scandal involving Thailand’s police force.
An said she had her passport with her and showed the police her visa on arrival. Still, she was told it was unacceptable and that she needed a visa printed in her passport with an official emblem. “About the incident that happened, for whatever faults that have occurred, I – as the chief of the unit – have to apologise to the people who have been affected in this case.”
“Will this case impact tourism? Not really in the short term. But definitely, if we’re talking about Thailand’s image, it has adversely affected the country,” he said. “It’s normal for people who travel abroad to not want any trouble with governmental officials in the area they visit,” Rangsiman noted.
The news prompted the Chonburi police to investigate the incident. Its fact-finding committee later found the officer in question had “grossly breached the discipline”. He was dismissed from his job earlier this month while legal actions were prepared against him.On Feb 1, one of An’s friends gave a press conference in Bangkok. He is known as Jz Sky, a Singaporean national who was with An when the group was stopped and searched by Thai police in January.
Any individual who possesses an e-cigarette in Thailand could face up to five years in prison or a fine worth four times its value, or both, according to the Office of the Consumer Protection Board. “This is merely a legal presumption; if the foreigner can present their passport to the officer, there won't be any consequences,” he said.
The CPI measures how corrupt each country’s public sector is perceived to be and gives it a score using different data sources, including corruption surveys and assessments. Following An’s case, Thailand’s national police chief emphasised how every police officer deployed at checkpoints must wear their uniform and carry a police body camera while on duty.
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