Nearly 1,800 out of over 2,400 cases of foreigners acting illegally in Phuket since October last year did not end in deportation, a provincial police chief revealed on Tuesday. Phuket Police Commander Pol Maj-General Teerapon Thipcharoln said that about 1,730 cases “discovered” by local police from many police stations across Phuket were not handed on to Phuket Immigration Office. A committee has been set up following the command from The Royal Thai Police to Provincial Police Region 8, which is chairing the investigation into the Phuket police involved in mishandling immigration cases. We still can’t confirm that all cases are involved with corruption or not,” said Teerapon. For these cases, the foreigners were fined and released back and there is no need to send them to the immigration.”

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 15, 2017 03:45 UTC