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have become mobile.
It is still too early to say how the coming season will go, but there are indications that we have gained better control over things, concluded Peter LAW, who is supported in his opinion by a colleague from one of the other Embassies who wishes to remain anonymous (the less publicity we have the better we work).
The more policemen from the western countries
we are, the more pressure we can bring to bear on the Thailand government to get the local police to make an effective effort to stop this illegal traffic, and perhaps get it stopped altogether on the opium fields. However they will not allow the harvest to be destroyed so as not to give the communists too strong a hand in the border areas, where the opium poppy is cultivated. Our greatest
contribution is therefore to supply our own Embassies
and thus the secret police and customs authorities with tips, so that they can make arrests as soon as the couriers land in our countries, he comments.
and make arrests.
The foreign police themselves cannot take action
They can co-operate by giving information to us if they know anything, but they cannot go one step further, explained the Bangkok Chief of Police.
The American narcotics police have had a little more freedom of movement and have often been lucky enough to infiltrate into narcotics circles, sometimes by making purchases. However this demands a large budget, which is far beyond what the other countries have allotted to the project. Even with good tips from the secret customs people it happens that we do not get our hooks into the awaited fish, because he has been smart enough to
share the job with a couple of friends for whom he finances the journey, and on the plane they draw lots for who shall carry the nefarious suitcase through customs, where the personnel can only carry out sporadic checks when a jumbo jet arrives with 350 people who shall all go through customs simultaneously.
The police and customs people in western airports pay particular attention to incoming Asiatics, so more and more Europeans are being used as couriers. They use the same method with casual white people, who receive a well-paid offer of a plane journey if they will take with them a double-bottomed suitcase in which is hidden a modest little packed containing a few hundred gram "snow".
Most of those who are caught are caught as a result of tips from the Embassies or the Police in the Far East. Several are caught at Kastrup in this way. The Danish Embassy in Bangkok does not wish to disclose how it is done, so as not to help the smugglers,
but as Ambassador HOWITZ says "It can be that a man from
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