More than 14,000 taxi drivers have been arrested and fined for breaking the law, including refusing to accept passengers, during the past year, a deputy tourist police chief said Friday.
Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal, deputy
commissioner of the Tourist Police Bureau, held a press conference in
Phaholyothin with the Land Transport Department to announce results of
the operation to clean up the taxi trade launched last September.
Surachet said police from several agencies, including tourist police,
and 191 Special Operation police and officials of the Land Transport
Department, have been enforcing the law against taxi drivers so
passengers would not be exploited.
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Surachet said 4,811 taxi drivers were arrested for refusing to accept
passengers without justification, which violated Article 93 of the Land
Traffic Act.
Source - TheNation
