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Students Face Gambling Crackdown
Student gamblers will face crackdown
Education officials, police to join forces
Sirikul Bunnag
The Education Ministry and police will mount a joint campaign to combat football gambling among students during World Cup 2002.
Police spokesman Pongsapat Pongcharoen said the police force and the Student Patrol Division had agreed to form joint patrols to crack down on football polls.
Police already had information on major bookies and would arrest them once their moves were detected, said Pol Maj-Gen Pongsapat.
Internet service providers would be told to refrain from serving football-betting websites while commercial banks would be asked to alert police about unusual money transactions.
The Telephone Organisation of Thailand and the Communications Authority of Thailand would monitor contacts between bookies and gamblers.
``All police units have sought co-operation from schools, boarding house owners, parents and teachers to keep a close watch on student conduct and alert police to prevent young people from indulging in football betting,'' Pol Maj-Gen Pongsapat said.
Nikom Jarumanee, head of the Student Patrol Division, said parents and relatives were asked to take special care of their offspring and screen their use of telephone and the internet.
Student behaviour development centres nationwide and seven student patrol centres in Bangkok would also help, he added.
A hotline centre has been set up to receive complaints and information about football gambling and can be reached on 02 214-0133.
Some students, meanwhile, said they preferred the freedom to watch games themselves, and perhaps gamble on them, rather than being told to watch them at schools.
Rattana-eak, a Mathayom 6 student of Wat Makutkasattriyaram school, said watching broadcasts at school under the supervision of teachers would not be fun.
Even if his school decided to rearrange classes to allow students to watch the World Cup in class, he and his friends would prefer to watch the broadcasts together at home or at football fans' hangouts, he said.
Wit, a 14-year-old Mathayom 2 student from the same school, said few students were interested in watching the World Cup at school after class.
Most boys wanted to watch them together with their friends.
Big, an 18-year-old Mathayom 6 student of Bangkok Christian College, said schools should allow their students to watch broadcasts at school to prevent class skipping.
He and his friends were likely to skip school on the days their favourite teams played, so they could watch the games together out of sight of teachers, he added.
Education officials, police to join forces
Sirikul Bunnag
The Education Ministry and police will mount a joint campaign to combat football gambling among students during World Cup 2002.
Police spokesman Pongsapat Pongcharoen said the police force and the Student Patrol Division had agreed to form joint patrols to crack down on football polls.
Police already had information on major bookies and would arrest them once their moves were detected, said Pol Maj-Gen Pongsapat.
Internet service providers would be told to refrain from serving football-betting websites while commercial banks would be asked to alert police about unusual money transactions.
The Telephone Organisation of Thailand and the Communications Authority of Thailand would monitor contacts between bookies and gamblers.
``All police units have sought co-operation from schools, boarding house owners, parents and teachers to keep a close watch on student conduct and alert police to prevent young people from indulging in football betting,'' Pol Maj-Gen Pongsapat said.
Nikom Jarumanee, head of the Student Patrol Division, said parents and relatives were asked to take special care of their offspring and screen their use of telephone and the internet.
Student behaviour development centres nationwide and seven student patrol centres in Bangkok would also help, he added.
A hotline centre has been set up to receive complaints and information about football gambling and can be reached on 02 214-0133.
Some students, meanwhile, said they preferred the freedom to watch games themselves, and perhaps gamble on them, rather than being told to watch them at schools.
Rattana-eak, a Mathayom 6 student of Wat Makutkasattriyaram school, said watching broadcasts at school under the supervision of teachers would not be fun.
Even if his school decided to rearrange classes to allow students to watch the World Cup in class, he and his friends would prefer to watch the broadcasts together at home or at football fans' hangouts, he said.
Wit, a 14-year-old Mathayom 2 student from the same school, said few students were interested in watching the World Cup at school after class.
Most boys wanted to watch them together with their friends.
Big, an 18-year-old Mathayom 6 student of Bangkok Christian College, said schools should allow their students to watch broadcasts at school to prevent class skipping.
He and his friends were likely to skip school on the days their favourite teams played, so they could watch the games together out of sight of teachers, he added.