indulge in these profitable activities. In an interview with the Far Eastern Economic Review in 1992, the prime minister Chuan Leekpai said At the moment we are trying to get rid of officers who may have problems, in particular the transfers of police who in the past may have been involved in buying positions, going right up to the level of the minister. That is no longer the case. There is to a certain extent some deficiency in human resources in our police force. But the problem is also the system that is why we propose to reform the system. The prime minister accepted that purchasing of positions in the police hierarchy had happened in the past, but claimed that retired police general the practice was now defunct commented: "I wonder where he obtained this information. And if he was in the opposition would he still be saying the same thing. An academic who was once a police officer found that the income which the