Word has it, that since the reopening of Bars in Pattaya, many people have been visiting the bar girls in the area and are not paying attention to the new rules.
Police have received many complaints from concerned citizens of people allegedly gathering, drinking, and socializing against the emergency decree rules which is still against the rules.
On June 26 Deputy Superintendent and officers set out on foot to enforce social distancing and other rules recently announcedby the Thai government.
They are continuing to patrol the tree town market area, Buakaw, Pattaya Nong Prue, Bang Lamung, province and other areas in Chonburi to ensure that visitors and businesses are following the rules. The Tree Town market has enhanced its preventive measures by putting up steel blockades to keep prostitutes from coming in and out unnoticed. Anyone entering the market has to pass through a checkpoint entrance only.
Also, police officers have increased patrol to check out to protect women who will come out to sit and prostitute. As of now, it is still Forbidden for people to sit and drink alcohol in the area of the market but seems to be ignored by most.
Here is a Video of what Pattaya looked like 7 days before restrictions were lifted
Many Bars look as if they will be closed for good. Other bars may not open now until tourists are permitted back into the country. For some bars, they have to try to recover some money, even if it is just to pay their bills.
Pattaya Scenes on June 21st 2020
Pattaya Police are expected to continue raiding the popular market area and their surrounding venues on Soi Buakhao.
Pattaya raid foreign bar owners deported and blacklisted
A Bar in Soi 6, Pattaya, was recently shut down for having a 17-year old solicit sex to customers. The chief of the Pattaya police and four high-ranking deputies have all been transferred after the raid. Bang Lamung district chief Amnat Charoensri said that he ordered the bar to be shut down for five years and that the case had damaged the image of (Pattaya) and Thailand as a whole. Meanwhile, the owners were blacklisted and sent back to their country.
