Tourist Police Tool Up On Walking Street

[Pattaya One]

Our photographer was on hand recently for a handover ceremony of some very expensive equipment on Walking Street in front of Tourist Police bigwigs.

This equipment  included new motorbikes, off-road vehicles, and two  Segway machines (pictured) on which two of the tourist police subsequently went for a spin down Walking Street.   Whether they would withstand the weight of the more lardy foreign tourist police volunteers is not known.

We would like to know where all this kit eventually goes, as we never see any of it being used around the town.

Does it get loaned out to other forces?

We would be grateful if any readers let us know if they see these Segways being ridden by a tourist police officer, or even an elderly foreign tourist police volunteer out coffin-dodging on Walking Street, or anywhere else in Fun Town for that matter.

And meanwhile, as the bigwig ceremony proceeded, a couple of likely-lad Russians sneaked up behind the massed ranks of tourist police and began monkeying around on their new, expensive items of kit.

Monkeying around

Slightly disrespectful, our photographer thought, but tolerated, as much bad behavior often is on Walking Street these days.

 

 

 

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