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"Big Joke" and Thai Law Enforcement's Excellent Adventure

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the further exploits of "Big Joke", that is Surachate "Big Joke" Hakpan here in Thailand. He has definitely been one that we have kind of noted on this channel because he became such a major force within the Immigration apparatus then kind of had a rocky road within his career and then he has now sort of reemerged as we have noted in prior videos in a rather senior position it appears within the Thai Police apparatus here in the Kingdom of Thailand.

The purpose of this video, the reason I thought of making this I came from a recent article I read in ASEAN NOW, aseannow.com, the article is titled: Big Joke flies in: Four cops arrested for taking million bribe to allow Chinese gang to film "live" erotic shows at resorts. Quoting directly: "Daily News reported that charismatic cop Pol. Lt-Gen Surachate Hakpan - known universally as “Big Joke” - flew into Chiang Rai in the north of Thailand yesterday where he announced the arrest of four officers in the Royal Thai Police. The Officers took bribes to turn a blind eye to the operations of a Chinese-led gang filming sex shows at two resorts in Muang District earlier this year." I am making a video contemporaneously with this one where we describe and I will go into some detail, regarding the issues surrounding pornography in Thailand. I have made other videos on this in the past but maybe kind of an update is in order in light of this recent article. 

Yeah, interesting to watch and as we have noted in prior videos where once Surachate "Big Joke" Hakpan was concentrating on mostly Immigration matters, and we reported on a number of crackdowns; we saw a number of situations where people were getting deported; a number of deportations occurred under his watch at Thai Immigration and it appears now that we are looking at a situation where he is taking that same sort of proactive approach to law enforcement and sort of utilizing it in a more generalist kind of manner not necessarily within the confines of the Thai Immigration apparatus. 

So interesting to see and we will certainly, if we see any further, I kind of keep an eye out to see kind of what he is doing because I find him to be a rather interesting character at this point. It is interesting to watch the things he gets involved in and again very much a proactive approach to law enforcement. So we will certainly keep you updated on this channel as the situation evolves.