By Thai Newsroom Reporters
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS may voluntarily request for a transfer from border areas currently in charge if they consider themselves incapable of combating such chronic crimes as call-centre scams or human and drug trafficking rackets, Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai confirmed today (Jan. 20).
Those government personnel ranging from district chiefs and police superintendents to working-level officials in charge of areas on the border with Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia where call-centre scams, human and drug trafficking could possibly be perpetrated will be given liberty to ask to be transferred and replaced by others after they have carried out government measures against those cross-border crimes for a six-month period as of the beginning of next month and honestly view their performance as inefficient and erroneous, according to the deputy prime minister-cum-defence minister.
Meanwhile, the Pheu Thai-led government plans to renew a concerted campaign against cross-border call-centre scams, human and drug trafficking rackets on January 30 with Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra scheduled to chair a meeting of the National Police, Ministry of Interior, Office of the Narcotic Control Board and Anti-Money-Laundering Office, among other relevant agencies.
Phumtham, invariably viewed as a right-hand man for de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, was apparently responding to outspoken remarks on the sustained issue by the father of the woman prime minister who has spiced up his ruling party’s provincial electoral campaign over the weekend.
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Top: A big team of officials, police and soldiers raiding a key spot in Mae Sot where internet cables were strung across the Moei river to Myawaddy’s crime zone Shwe Kokko. Photo:Thai Rath
Insert: Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai. Photo: Thai Rath
Front Page: A large lot of meth pills mixed with sodium cyanide was seized in Bueng Kan province in July 2024. Photo: Naewna
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