Bye Bye GT200, Hello Alpha 6
Drug smugglers can rejoice that the Thai police have blown $180,000 of their budget on a fraudulent drug detection device.
Thailand’s board of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, has endorsed a 400 million baht plan for drugs control, Pol Lt-Gen Krisna Polananta, the secretary-general, announced on Wednesday.
“Speed pills [ya ba] and crystal methamphetamine [ya ice] are both now widely obtainable in 285 districts across the country, including the five inhabited areas of Bangkok, or a total of about 70 per cent of the country.
“The allocated budget is for financing phase 2 of the drugs suppression scheme in which police, military and civilian forces will join hands to tackle the trafficking problem,” Pol Lt-Gen Krisna told local media.
He dismissed as unsupported a report that his office had purchased GT200 bomb detectors for 1.5 million baht each.
“We don’t have the GT200. We have only 15 Alpha 6 narcotics detectors which cost 400,000 ($12,000) baht each,” he replied.
Like the GT200, the Alpha 6 is merely a dowsing rod and no more accurate than a coat hanger in a toilet tissue roll.
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