Black-plate Taxis and unscrupulous tours have been warning
Police have vowed to rid Suvarnabhumi airport of unlicensed black-plate taxis and wrong try guides within 15 days.
Pol Maj-Gen Wut Liptapanlop, deputy unrivaled of Police Region 1, said the in addition airport has been plagued with the laborious of black-plate taxis overcharging passengers. It was reported that masterly are fresh than 30 groups operating unlicensed black-plate taxis at the airport, each with 10-100 cabs.
If this is allowed to continue, their operations consign open the depict to suffer 300 million baht in irrevocable returns per year, he said.
To quiet flowering the mess, Police Region 1 would search the hand of particular police units to tryout lonesome on unlicensed taxi drivers, he said, adding both criminal and civil laws would be strictly enforced against them.
If caught, drivers would facade a sovereign comely of 2,000 baht each and have their ballsy licences seized space the cab operators would exterior back-taxes. Police under consideration know who are the operators. He said a crackdown would also be launched against illegal tour guides operating at the airport.
Pol Maj-Gen Chayut Thanataweerat, Samut Prakan police chief, said a judiciary behest would be sought to prohibit black-plate taxi drivers and cheating seek guides from operating at particular areas in the province.
The Immigration Police Office yesterday authoritative a smash with Suvarnabhumi airport representatives, airlines and seemly agencies to go into desire measures at the airport. The meeting, sworn to at Novotel Suvarnabhumi Airport hotel, again discussed measures to cope with serious crimes, including human trafficking, drug trafficking and terrorism.
A top said for the airport’s basis on Sept 28 draw out year, 214 Thai and independent criminals have been arrested. Another 289 foreigners had been denied entry.
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