A 22-year-old youth was detained after he crashed his Toyota Yaris car into a security checkpoint on Phahonyothin road in Don Mueang area killing a traffic police officer on duty last night. He was later charged with drink driving, in addition to causing death and reckless driving, after blood alcohol test showed the amount of […]
KRABI — A combined task force of security officers and Muslim clerics yesterday raided the home of a 62-year-old man in Krabi who decreed himself the new prophet of Islam. Meed Mamart was given a stern lecture Saturday to stop his blasphemous actions, and his heretical writings were burned for good measure, the clerics said, […]
The police officer who drew flaks from netizens for shooting dead a dog and injuring another turned himself in to his boss today (Monday) and admitted that he did shoot the dogs out of a fit of anger for biting his wife and kids. The shooting took place at a police apartment on Vibhavadi Rangsit […]
Three security officers were wounded, one seriously, in separate bomb and grenade attacks in the troubled southern provinces of Pattani and Yala on Friday night and Saturday morning. In Pattani, a roadside bomb went off in tambon Bang Khao in Nong Chik district as an eight-member police team travelling on a motorcycle and a pickup […]
A police officer suspected of raping a Lao woman killed two higher-ranked officers at Pluak Daeng police station in Rayong before being shot dead by a colleague Monday afternoon. The shooting happened at 3.15pm as Pol Sen Sgt Maj Shinkrit Phutthipraphas was brought to see Pol Col Somchai Soonthornwanich, chief of the Pluak Daeng station, […]
BANGKOK — Eighteen police officers in the capital and six immigration officers in the northeast of Thailand have been transferred to inactive posts for alleged wrongdoing related to the deadly bombing of the Erawan Shrine earlier this month. The 18 cops were transferred to inactive posts for falsely claiming they had thoroughly searched jurisdictions where […]
PHUKET: A Srisoonthon village headman filed a formal complaint to Phuket Governor Nisit Jansomwong yesterday (July 1) alleging that two men acting as police came to his office on Monday (June 29) and carried out a search. At 4pm yesterday, Amnoyporn Samneing, village headman of Moo 6 in Srisoonthon and his assistant Chaermpon Kerdsap went […]
Twelve more police officers responsible for drug suppression in Ayutthaya have been transferred to inactive posts pending an investigation into their suspected involvement in the drug trade. The transfers compound the embarrassment for the police force in the province, where an investigator was recently sacked for drug-related offences. Read more: Bangkok Post
