Bangkok Metropolitan Police will be installing “intelligent” dummy police officers, nicknamed “Jah Choey” or Sergeant Idly Silent, at 13 locations across Bangkok to keep an eye on traffic law violators, a senior police officer said yesterday. City police deputy chief Phanu Kerdlarppol said the dummy officers would capture images of traffic violators and help real […]
BANGKOK, Sept 27 – Thai Army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha is is Thailand’s troubled South today on an inspection trip of the insurgency-impacted border region. Meeting the media before departing, he said that security in the area is less than it might be, but that it will be stepped up to contain the movements and […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 26 – Fire badly damaged two security installations by suspected arsons in Narathiwat’s Bacho district but no casualties were reported, according to local police. Fires broke out at a police special operations unit and an army post at about 9pm Sunday, according to Pol Col Pakdee Prechachon, superintendent of Bacho police station. Read […]
PATTANI, 25 September 2011 (NNT) – Security Authorities in Pattani Province have stepped up security measures especially at important landmarks, and community zones after they received leads on a possible bombing in the area. Various checkpoints have been set-up on major roads leading to the Mueang District, to search all incoming vehicles. Leads have indicated […]
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Friday announced a plan to fine-tune strategies to deal with violence in the southern border provinces. As part of the strategies, the government will focus on maintaining security in the deep South rather than on quelling insurgency. On Friday, Yingluck set up a committee to be in charge of the […]
BANGKOK, 19 September 2011 (NNT) – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has instructed security related agencies to enhance safety for people in southern border provinces of Thailand following the recent insurgency. Deputy Police Chief Adul Sangsingkaew said the investigation had made significant progress with arrest warrants already issued for two of the suspects. According to […]
BANGKOK, 11 September 2011 (NNT) – With the marking of the 9/11 tenth anniversary today in the United States, tight security around the U.S. embassy in Bangkok has been carried out as usual while the commemoration will begin on Monday. Police from the Lumphini station and the embassy security unit are keeping vigil as usual […]
The teachers federation in the three Thailand’s southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani yesterday issued a four-point statement saying teachers were a main target of those behind the unrest in the region, and urged teachers to strictly follow security measures. Federation deputy president Manop Boonthaviroj said the situation had worsened since 37-year-old teacher Khanit […]
