REHABILITATION urges Prawit in order to tackle nepotism
The resistance Pheu Thai Party yesterday demanded Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, the caretaker prime minister and director of the Internal Security Procedures Command (Isoc), tackle the patronage program in the security company.
The particular maid abuse scandal was evidence of the particular patronage system within Isoc at work and possibly the tip of the iceberg, said Pheu Thai spokeswoman Arunee Kasayanont. “The question is definitely how many other cases have existed? Who otherwise should be held responsible to them? And is the Isoc’s spending of taxpayers’ money worthwhile? inch asked Ms Arunee.
She was referring to the recruitment of Pol Cpl Kornsasi Buayaem, 43, who produced headlines for defeating her maid, thirty-two, for whom the girl also secured the military job allegedly in exchange for money plus forced labour.
Pol Cpl Kornsasi was hired by the General Employees Division of the Unique Branch Bureau from the Royal Thai Law enforcement (RTP) when she was 39 years of age even though the maximum age for the position was limited to 35.
She had a squad leader’s position and was afterwards transferred to the Particular Branch Bureau’s first Division. Around the beginning of this year, the lady was assigned to do temporary duty at the Isoc’s Region 4 Forward Command from the Royal Thai Military.
The parliamentary panel will look into whether the police force’s recruitment from the woman and her assignment to the Isoc Region 4 Forwards Command, and the army recruitment of the maid, were in line with the regulation.
Within 2019, Prime Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) Prayut Chan-o-cha, right now suspended as leading minister pending the Constitutional Court judgment on his eight-year tenure, expanded the Isoc to up to seventeen sub-units, said Microsoft Arunee.
The expansion received criticism as to regardless of whether Isoc tended in order to interfere with regional management organisations, considering the fact that a military official was as part of Isoc’s enlargement, appointed to serve as a provincial deputy governor for army affairs in the provinces, she said.
Isoc acquired tried to justify this move by making the scope of international security affairs show up endless and involve most, if not almost all, other areas of general public administration, she said.
Similarly, the presence of Isoc’s officials in every province ought to make locals feel safe, while on another hand, Isoc much more like a twilight area where outsiders will not know what actually is happening and are unable to check, she said.
With full authority in hand, Gen Prawit should be aware that the investigation into what has long been wrong in Isoc is now inevitable and case-by-case probes are no longer sufficient to keep public trust, she said.
Clear and responsible information about the number of troops, police and civilians working in Isoc needs to be made available for community scrutiny, as a way associated with eradicating the patronage system in the company, she said.
In another development, the Human Rights and Development Basis (HRDF) said it has petitioned the Division of Special Investigation (DSI) to take more than from the police the particular investigation against Pol Cpl Kornsasi to make sure fairness.
The misconduct in cases like this is far more severe than general misuse as it also requires forced labour and human trafficking, that are both breaches of the 2008 Trafficking in Persons Prevention plus Suppression Act, said the HRDF.
Besides, the case also involves obvious abuse of authority to secure a job in the RTP for the believe and a military job for the maid the lady abused, said the particular HRDF. That is why the particular RTP should not be trusted to investigate the case.
The Senate’s ethics committee, in the mean time, will today begin investigating records associated with past meetings to discover how many committees Pol Cpl Kornsasi sat on and how much she was paid for these jobs, even though she didn’t is very much qualified for them.