Royal Thai Police Eying Changing Traffic Police Uniforms to Look More Friendly

Thai Highway Police, Nissan Navara At Phanom Sarakham Highway Police Box. Chachoengsao province
Thai Highway Police, Nissan Navara At Phanom Sarakham Highway Police Box. Chachoengsao province. Photo: Thai Police Vehicles / flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Thai deputy national police chief is eying to change the color of the vest’s banners worn by traffic police to reflective green and yellow [Read More…]

Royal Thai Police orders officers to stop revealing nationality information of foreigners arrested to the media

Toyota Hilux Thai police car in Phitsanulok, Thailand
Toyota Hilux Thai police car in Phitsanulok, Thailand. Image: Krittaya.

According to Royal Thai Police spokesman Pol General Roi Ingkhapairoj, Thai police are being ordered to no longer give nationality information of foreigners arrested for [Read More…]

House committee slams Thai police for arresting, defrocking Cambodian monk

Monks boarding a pickup truck in Kalasin, Thailand
Monks boarding a pickup truck in Kalasin, Thailand. Photo: Marshall Astor.

Thailand’s House committee, tasked with scrutinising a bill against torture and enforced disappearances, has cried foul over Tuesday night’s arrest and defrocking of a monk [Read More…]

Bangkok police deny use of live rounds against anti-government protesters

Royal Thai Police pick up in Bangkok
Royal Thai Police pick up in Bangkok. Photo: Ian Fuller / flickr. CC BY-NC 2.0.

The Thai police have not resorted to the use of lethal weapons including live rounds in dealing with anti-establishment protesters, and that only rubber bullets [Read More…]

Police say 47 million baht to repair five water cannon trucks not expensive

Thai police using water cannon to disperse protesters on Rama I Road in Bangkok, beneath Siam BTS Station, on 16 October 2020
Thai police using water cannon to disperse protesters on Rama I Road in Bangkok, beneath Siam BTS Station, on 16 October 2020. Photo: Prachatai / Youtube. CC BY 3.0.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) has described the estimated 47 million baht price tag for repairs to five water cannon trucks as “reasonable”, because the [Read More…]