9 policemen suspended on charges of extorting cash from foreigner
NINE police officers were suspended from duty after a Vanuatu citizen complained that they had extorted over 5 million baht from him to drop charges of being linked to passport forgery which he denied, Naewna newspaper and TV Channel 3 Plus News said this evening (Nov. 5). Pol. Lt. Gen. Thanayut Wutticharasathamrong, assistant national […]
Read MoreThailand’s Shia leader calls for probe of airport police after students allegedly ‘threatened’
THE Shia leader for Thailand today (Oct. 30) submitted a letter to Parliament President/House Speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha asking for an investigation of Special Branch police at Suvarnabhumi Airport who allegedly threatened students returning from Iran, TV Channel 7 said. Mr. Chaiyid Sulaiman Hussainy, Thailand’s Shia leader, said in the letter accepted by […]
Read MoreNetizens fuming over video of dancers swaying at police station
TURNING into a social media issue is the circulation of a video clip of three scantily-clad dancers rocking at Plai Bang police station in Nonthaburi with questions raised about the appropriateness of doing so at a government office, Amarin TV said yesterday (Oct. 18). At 11.30 a.m. reporters of this TV channel went Plai […]
Read MorePolice vehicle damaged in Yala bombing
SOUTHERN insurgents detonated a bomb just as a police vehicle drove past a road in Raman district of Yala province today (Oct. 14) damaging it but there were no casualties, Naewna newspaper said. At 9.38 a.m. 191 Emergency Call Centre at Yala provincial police headquarters was informed of the bomb explosion with shrapnel damaging […]
Read MoreOne dead in truck driver’s wild ride through city centre
A DELIRIOUS knife-wielding truck driver’s wild ride up and down Rama IV road then to Bang Phli, Samut Prakan, led to a couple riding a motorcycle being seriously injured and the man having now died, Amarin TV said this evening (Sept. 4). From 2 p.m. onwards four policemen riding two motorcycles chased the six-wheel […]
Read MorePolice chase knife-wielding delirious truck driver on Rama IV road
FOUR policemen riding two motorcycles chased a knife-wielding driver of a six-wheel truck that does not have side panels up and down Rama IV road from 2 p.m. onwards today (Sept. 4) but he managed to drive off towards Bang Phli, Samut Prakan, TV Channel 3 Plus News said. The driver appeared to be […]
Read MorePolice deny bulletproof vests made from plywood in use
AFTER a photo of an alleged police bulletproof vest made from plywood went viral online, the Police Ordnance Division quickly denied it has procured such ineffective body armour for junior police officers to use, Amarin TV said this morning (July 22). A Thai-language webpage “Want to be Famous, We will Arrange it, Return – […]
Read MorePolice panel upholds order to temporarily sack ‘Big Joke’
A NATIONAL police panel voted 12-0 to uphold an order issued by acting police chief Pol. Gen. Kitirat Phanphet last April temporarily dismissing Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakphan, nicknamed Big Joke, who is facing charges of being linked to online gambling websites, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (June 26). Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin had […]
Read MoreThai police help FBI in smashing global cyber crime gang
WITH the arrest of a global cyber crime gang’s mastermind in Singapore, Thai police coordinated with the FBI in seizing over a billion baht worth of their assets in Thailand, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (June 1). Mr. Mike Chai, FBI attache in Thailand, had asked the Attorney General’s Office to help smash this […]
Read MoreEx-police chief’s spouse ‘seeks British nationality to escape money-laundering charges’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NIPAPAN SUKWIMON, spouse of former police chief Pol. Gen. Torsak Sukwimon, has quietly applied for British nationality in an alleged effort to escape money-laundering charges, said a famed lawyer today (Apr. 30). Also known as “Madame Kookkai”, the spouse of the former police chief who has been suspended from duty […]
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