Priorities wrong, yet again
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Again, the government focuses on what's easily seen, not what's most important. This time, it's cleaning up the police force's dirty image by taking things literally, firing a station chief in Sadao for dirty housekeeping.
But it’s more important to clean up the force’s image by, say, arresting station heads who allow big gambling dens in their precinct, or disciplining police chiefs who fly off to thank fugitives from the law for their posting. Prime Minister Yingluck should use key performance indices, such as promoting precinct chiefs responsible for lowering deaths from traffic accidents by the greatest percentage in the past year, so that we no longer have what the World Health Organisation calls the highest rate of such deaths in the world. Or promote station heads who increased traffic flow in their precinct by the highest percentage in the past year.
Focus on what counts, not what’s countable, Madam.
Burin Kantabutra
Bangkok
