Published : October 10, 2010 :: 13:10:27 [ 13,822 views ]

Bangkok Police Crackdown on ‘Short-time’ Premises in Pattaya


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Crime Suppression Police raided another ‘short-time’ bar in North Pattaya on Saturday night. Following this week’s raid on the Mandarin Bar in Soi 6, officers instigated a similar investigation on the nearby Soho Bar.

Pattaya, the 9th of October 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 11:00pm on Saturday, Lieutenant Colonel Choosak Kaytong (Crime Suppression Special Unit officer) and his team conducted a sting operation at the Soho Bar (A-Go-Go) on Soi 6, off Pattaya Beach Road.

In similar circumstances to Thursday’s raid on the Mandarin Bar, officers using a foreign national as an undercover agent infiltrated the Soho Bar, after reports surfaced that the establishment may be offering prostitution services by way of ‘short-time’ rooms located above the main bar.

Following the setup, whereby the undercover agent requested and paid for the use of the aforementioned sexual services, officers raided the premises and arrested eight women, including the bar manager, Mrs. Pornsawan Iammala [33].

The seven arrested staff/Go-Go dancers were found to be all under 20-years-of-age, while Mrs. Iammala reluctantly confessed to being the owner and manager of the establishment. Police investigating the incident were reluctant to provide the media with any information pertaining to evidence confiscated in the raid other than the information of those arrested.

The seven employees of the establishment have been charged with ‘prostitution and/or aiding in the prostitution of others’, while Mrs Iammala has been charged with being the ‘owner/manager of an illegal prostitution business’.

Editor’s Note: As with the case of the Mandarin Bar earlier this week, the officers involved in the raid are part of the Bangkok – Crime Suppression Special Unit – Police. This may constitute a show of force by the unit undermining local authorities and/or promoting the new commander of the national division. High-ranking Royal Thai Police officers are rotated in their positions on a yearly basis (every October), including divisional heads.


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Sven
said :
Arrested girl told me the farang who assisted police is the sex movie guy arrested a few months ago.
Email : sven2355@msn.com Date : 2010-11-05 15:05:20
tommy
said :
Thai police...What a bunch of *ucking assholes...Makes me laugh until my sides split! Like any of this is going to make any difference whatsoever!
Email : mrwhippy@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-17 23:01:52
PattayaJohn
said :
High-ranking Royal Thai Police officers are rotated in their positions on a yearly basis (every October), including divisional heads.

This means they need a "payoff" to supplement an income which is illegal but accepted in Thailand.

New guys need a way to payoff their expensive cars or homes.
Email : pattayajohn@aol.com Date : 2010-10-14 13:51:18
kakira
said :
once you become a human, you live only short of period of times...enjoy your life, have more sex b4 u die...i really enjoy sex so much...lets enjoy 2gether la.
Email : kakrama@gmail.com Date : 2010-10-13 05:37:03
bill greco
said :
The foriegn national must be a real ass hole.
Email : billgd@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-13 02:00:07
NorDevil
said :
Have only lived in Thailand since 2003 and in Bkk but often in Pattaya.It is curious to see that people here only talk about farang ?? Where ever I go in Bkk or Rangsit where where I live I see bars and brothels.The curious thing is that NOT a single customer is farang !!! Wake up
"jackmehoff" it is not only underage girls doing this . . .walk along Beachroad and you can see them in all ages.Grandmothers are also selling their stuff . . . calling all sexualdeviants is a little strong . . . . considering that the farangsegment of this market is under 15% of this industry.Closing down all such bars will be impossible.Drugs are being used by others and not only bargirls.Lorrydrivers use jaba so they can drive all day to support their family . . . . teenagers that has never even talked to farang . . . Thai teenagers use that shitt every day.The Thai police doing their job ?? that is as easy to fix as stopping the oldest proffesion in the world . . . . this is NOT only a Thai problem.Sex is on sale in every country in the world.
Email : shyfarang@yahoo.co.uk Date : 2010-10-12 08:50:58
hotmanparis
said :
Nice to see the Pattaya Police addressing "human trafficking" in Pattaya. And how the Pattaya Police "rescued/arrested" the poor seven girls. I guess the girls are now on involuntary vacation.
Email : hotmanparis@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-12 07:38:55
Bob
said :
Good comment Julie, I must admit they are rough looking and too many are fat/ overweight
Email : Bob@toobad.com Date : 2010-10-11 14:54:30
jack
said :
Some Nice Lookin Girls!!
Email : jackferguson69@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-11 14:27:34
mark
said :
prostitution is illegal in thailand???? yet, so blantant for ALL to see... really sad.. seriously, what a joke.. its illegal, yet EVERYWHERE.

Thailand, do yourselves some good and CLOSE ALL of these nasty places.. you know, ENFORCE the law!!! Would send all the garbage back to their home countries, it would STOP the drug trade (#1 reason is to supply the working girls) and would STOP pedophelia... ALL good things if the goverment would enforce the darn law...
Email : markreyn59@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-11 13:14:13
Julie
said :
It reads 'I love Soho'.
Just look at these pitiful looking girls. Who in their right minds would want any type of sex with them? Just desperate farangs with nothing but insecurity and low self esteem. Yuk!!! You actually come all the way from the UK and Germany etc. for this?
Then some of you will buy them houses or send them money each month....Hahahahahahahhaahha to show how insecure you really are.
Very sad.
Email : julie@everbored.org Date : 2010-10-11 12:50:28
Dirk The Daring
said :
Do the girls shirts say, "I love Soi 6"

LOL
Email : 123@yn.cx Date : 2010-10-11 11:47:31
Jackmehoff is an A-hole
said :
Bwaahahaha Jackmehoff, you a-hole. Your summary could have been written by pre-schooler(third language English). Why don't you stick to cleaning feet on beach road you knobhead.
The reality is that the BiB are jostiling for power. Plain & simple. Without sex tourism, Thailand would be dead, it's the sad reality. AND if anyone thinks that the Baht is strong because it's a great currency, then think again. The Baht is doing exactly what the US admninistration want it to do MOREVOER, Thailand elite get more bang of their baht when spending abroad - WIN-WIN for Thai Elites again ;0)
Email : bangkokblood@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-11 10:01:47
bear
said :
In then outta jail in 12 hours then I see open for business as usual the next day. Pattaya's finest must be short on payroll again this month, having to stoop to the level of shaking down one of the thousands of small fun shacks in town. Who's next?
Time for these places to start giving the gals credit card machines for payment of services rendered(no marked bills)....LOL!!!. Might be a little hard explaining the monthly statement to the wife though.
Email : petie334@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-11 08:49:29
harry harmony
said :
Obviously the Pattaya and Bkk coppers are having a bit of a feudalistic scrap about who gets to scam whom.
Let's just hope they all shoot each other.
Email : harry@hatred.com Date : 2010-10-11 08:31:21
NorDevil
said :
Is this anything to worry about ?
The Police are doing this the Thai way.helping out the shorttime hotels and smaller bars that rents out rooms . . . they are by the looks of things only targetting Bars where the girl in the same bar as the rooms they go to to do their work.Trying to do their job by enforcing Thai law does not seem to concern any policeoffer as the sale of sex goes on as usuall right under the Polices nose . . . . Buisness as usuall in sin city.
Email : shyfarang@yahoo.co.uk Date : 2010-10-11 08:02:10
michael.bkk
said :
I just happened to see the BKK coppers in the Karaoke Bars near my place in Huay Kwang (BKK). Apparently off-duty and enjoying themselves - or they were just doing some training for further raids of farang catering establishments in Pattaya.
Email : michael@bkk.com Date : 2010-10-11 07:52:11
fun
said :
what wrong whit the farangs come to thailand and play police. go back home and be a police there
Email : jjdfjfj@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-11 03:09:49
jordan
said :
hei boy's
let's us work for a clean pty.
we need it,we dream it.
if u dont like it,just move to soi 7
or soi 8.
and if u are not over 60 let's walk till soi 2.
KEEP WALKING Lol Lol
Lt Colonel Jordan
Email : jordan@rtp.th Date : 2010-10-11 01:29:46
stone phillips
said :
Thanks for the info.How about a crackdown on putting small kids in the back of pickup trucks and driving them around in the scorching sun and intense traffic pollution and no law to put helmets on them either.It is a human right to have protection from your care givers.Everyone can see how they suffer.
Email : stonehands@rocketmail.com Date : 2010-10-11 01:21:43
shergars ghost
said :
Obviously Soi 6 has specifically been singled out as a place of ill-repute, requiring the undivided attention from Bangkok's finest.
Email : iandermott@hotmail.co.uk Date : 2010-10-11 01:18:44
Soi6barowners
said :
We are checking the CCTV to find out who the farang stooge is. once we know his identity he'll be sleeping with the fishes
Email : dontgrass@yahoo.com Date : 2010-10-11 00:52:09
Tigerwillie
said :
And about the Farang that the police send into the bars as to help the police in their raids these must be farang who have committed some crimes and the way they are getting off or out of their troubles is to be a snitch or rat. These are just my assumptions there may be no truth behind it but that seems to be the general consensus.
Email : twillie@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-11 00:50:43
jackmehoff
said :
Well I guess all of you have known for a long time that prostitution is illegal in Thailand. I think that the police should close all Go-Go bars in Bangkok and Pattaya. All these dirty old men coming to Thailand to look to have sexual relations with underage boys and girls is disgusting. I read all the comments in this post as well as other posts and wow was I surprised to see how many foreigners were so concerned about the loss of tourism for Thailand? I believe what these people in the posts are saying is that the police are making it too hard for them to enjoy themselves. Let me ask all you sexual deviants why are you not in your own country having sex with young underage girls? Yes thats right because you all know that if you did that in your own country that you would be arrested and incarcerated for a very long time and probably be beaten up or murdered in jail back in your own countries. I also find it very interesting as many of these sexual deviants have grown children back in their homelands, so maybe they ran away or come here because they have done something to their own children, or maybe they come here because they think of having sex with their own children.
PROSTITUTION IS ILLEGAL IN THAILAND!!! BE AWARE FOREIGNERS YOU MIGHT END UP IN THE SLAMMER!!!
As for the police good job but I think you can do better. It is time that all the human rights groups get together and attack this problem in Thailand CLOSE ALL THE SEX BARS!!! As for the concerns of the foreigners about the amount of tourists here don't worry about Thailand this is not your country let the government deal with their problems. Thailand keeps shooting themselves in the foot. The reason no one is coming here is because Thailand has lost face in the International Community. The foreign currencies are weak and the Baht remains strong. Good luck to Thailand. Oh and by the way all the people on overstay good luck to you and Thailand remember if you are going to make laws why don't you enforce them instead of lining your dirty greedy pockets with money start doing your job.
Email : j@jj.net Date : 2010-10-11 00:45:35
oldjake
said :
I can only imagine it won't be long before you see Pattaya Police
shutting down bars in Bangkok just to get even.

Probably using the same Farang snitch as well...
Email : oldjake@gmail.com Date : 2010-10-11 00:03:05
Blade
said :
Yes, Steven, but now they're old men. And....they're back!
Email : blade@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-10 21:21:54
mark
said :
R.I.P Pattaya.
Email : markusfa@yahoo.com Date : 2010-10-10 20:11:35
teo
said :
pattaya is loosing tens of thousands of there regular punters
to Cambodia,what else has pattaya got without places like soi6?it's hardly a place of beauty and tranquility
Email : wee_teo12@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-10 19:04:47
Steven
said :
Maybe I am wrong Bob. But was it not young American soldiers on leave that made Pattaya to what it is?
Email : bellste@gmail.com Date : 2010-10-10 18:34:14
Frank Roswood
said :
A lesson to bar owners. Don't be late or forget to pay your taxes to TH finests...
Email : franky_r_62@gmail.com Date : 2010-10-10 16:22:29
Bob
said :
It's ironic that Pattaya is now harassing mongers, and the businesses that cater to them. Old western men made Pattaya what it is, and the City owes them a lot. They've made a lot of money off single male tourists, and they are delusional if they think that their filthy ugly mismanaged sh*thole can ever compete as a world class beach resort.
No one in his right mind would bring a family to Pattaya when there are so many prettier places to go. Keep Pattaya like it is, a paradise for old geezers.
Email : bob@toobad.com Date : 2010-10-10 15:39:54
Julie
said :
The Editors note is an appreciated and daring expose of what may be really going on - I read between the lines. The Tea money has to be shared? Thats the way I see it folks. The local BIB must be livid because their City is being policed by outsiders.
Email : julie@evrbored.org Date : 2010-10-10 14:07:16
IQneg
said :
Really can't believe this. Two in a week, Anyone would think our lovely city was a veritable Mecca for illicit sex. TAT should really step in and stop this perpetual harassment of those dedicated to the redistribution of wealth. No wonder decent clean-living tourists are staying away. At this rate, the Royal Thai Police will totally eradicate fun-at-a-price here within 147 years.

It's probably just another ploy to prevent the Isaan from acquirng and accumulating Foreign Financial Aid contributions.
Email : IQneg@BraneDed.com Date : 2010-10-10 14:05:10

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