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Police officers arrest more than 20 teenagers at Rachavibha Park after getting a report of illegal assemble from inspectors.

More than 20 teenagers including less than 18 years old have been arrested at Rachavibha Park while being assemble for unlawful purpose by officers’ Chatuchak Police station on Thursday 15th, 2.00 am, find drugs and hypodermic syringes including condoms around the park area. After investigating, the police officers reveal this is not the first time of arresting and officers have to do more strictly of quashing.

Rachavibha Park is the remembrance park of art performances but not have so many people come and visit because it is placed under the grade way of Rachada road. This park always occurs an accident, crime including to sexual activity according to its dark atmosphere and far from people’s sight. People around this area are accustomed to the accidents and arrestings that always happen in this park.

On daytime this park is the calm park and looks like the other park in Bangkok. People always just come and pass this park all the time because it has the way through the Vibhavadee Road. And Taxi drivers always use this park as the place for taking a nap and having lunch according to there has a taxi garage and food shop nearby the park. There is not like a dangerous place at all for daytime. But for a nighttime it is different totally. Rachavibha Park changes from the calm place to the decayed area. A lot of people start coming about 10pm and congested around midnight.

It's obviously that people who come to this park always be a group of gay and drug addict or even robber and thief. They will come around 10pm-3am and do the unlawful activity such as buying and selling sexual activity, drug and doing crime and robbery. After being arrested, the accused will be not so strictly punished because the law has provided the punishment of this case just for several hundreds to 2 thousands of fining or detaining for several days.

“This area is always dark and there's nobody pass through it. Police do the arresting and several days pass, it’s going to be the same” said Miss Vandee Promsook, occupant around the park area.

This park is considered to be the place where has much of Aids infection because there is a lot of sex promiscuousness and hypodermic syringe using of drug addicts. And sometimes this park would be the place for committing suicide and murder.

“For several years ago, there had a killing in this park. Woman was killed by slicing the neck and the murder was her ex-boyfriend. People said it caused by jealousy” said Mr. Sutham Vanawong, owner of noodle shop nearby the park.

And for several months pass, there was another killing but this time was a committing suicide.

“Dead person was a gay who was infected Aids from this park because he always came and did sex promiscuousness. And he couldn’t accept that he was infected. Then he committed suicide in this park” said Miss Nararath Boonpaphan, the owner of Krua-Fah-Sai- a restaurant nearby the park.

Police officers arrest more than 20 teenagers while they are taking drug and doing a sex promiscuousness in the park. A lot of scandal and unacceptable image is occurring by not enough caring of member in society.

If there is more strict and serious punishment for this illegal and inappropriate performances and officers including member in society take more responsibility and carefully, it would relieve everything to be better.

It is not a general situation that happens in the society. But it is a problem that indicates deterioration in our society. And this deterioration is happening to the new generation that is going to be an important part of the society in the future. Moreover if there is your lineage that is going to be a part of this deteriorated cycle, how could ignore and bear for it? So this is our turn to relieve our society.