Template from the Immigration Bureau accused Suvarnabhumi Airport Immigration Office of using the spoils system to profit some officers. He claims that a lot of airport immigration police have been transferred to different posts despite the airport being crowded and understaffed.
One immigration police officer reached out to a Facebook page, Moon Rabbit V3 (พระจันทร์ ลายกระต่าย V3), urging them to show the spoils system within the Suvarnabhumi Airport Immigration Office to the public. The police officer said…
“Hi, admin. Have you ever heard that Suvarnabhumi Airport could be very crowded with travellers and is facing a scarcity of staff? The bureau commissioner solved the problem by shifting 120 immigration police from throughout the country to work on the airport. No one wished to maneuver, but we have to.”
The officer went on to say…
“We travelled an extended way to help the officers right here, however those officers were then transferred to other posts. We didn’t wish to transfer to work right here, however we did it and did our greatest. Those have been moved out, so the problem of staff shortage remained. The commissioner does not care in regards to the overloaded work and solely targeted on benefiting those officers.”
The officer who complained also sent the official doc he acquired to the Facebook page’s admin to show that he and different officers had been officially transferred to support the group on the airport.
He additionally added that immigration police at Suvarnabhumi Airport weren’t allowed to relocate in accordance with the authorized announcement made by the commissioner.
The Deputy Commander of the Royal Thai Police (RTP), Roy Ingpairoj, reported that relevant departments will examine the issue to discover out the truth of the officer’s claims. If the claims are true, measures to solve the issue and punishment shall be immediately carried out.
Last month, the RTP reported that they uncovered a visa rip-off with 110 officers from the Immigration Bureau concerned. The Deputy Commander of the RTP, Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn, revealed that these officers illegally supplied visas to foreigners, especially Chinese traders.
Big Joke also reassured the common public that these corrupt officers symbolize solely a small fraction of the over 20,000 immigration police in Thailand and that the exposure of these officers was a constructive improvement allowing the bureau to enhance..