A POLICE colonel who has been charged with joining the head of Crime Victims Assistance Association and four other accomplices in extorting 2.5 million baht from an Immigration police officer to not broadcast allegations of smuggling out Chinese suspects from a detention centre faces dismissal within five days, Amarin TV said today (April 22).
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Influencer fuming over police demanding cash for petrol to investigate burglary
Updated at 5 a.m., April 6, 2026 TURNING into a heated issue on Thai social media is the revelation by a popular influencer that police had demanded 1,000 baht for petrol to drive up and investigate a burglary at her relative’s house, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV said last night (April 5). The influencer,
Read morePublic urged to download expanded Police Care app to check on scammers
TWO new features have been added to the Police Care application to further help the public fend off scammers as they can now check these cybercriminals’ bank account and phone numbers, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Feb. 2). Ms. Airin Panrit, deputy spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office, said the government is working on
Read moreFormer chief doctor linked to Thaksin case could be promoted before retirement
A FORMER chief doctor at Police Hospital linked to de facto Pheu Thai boss/inmate Thaksin Shinawatra’s six-month fake-out at this hospital until his parole early 2024 is poised for a promotion to the rank of general before his retirement in October this year according to a memorandum signed by Police Chief Gen. Kitrat Phanphet,
Read moreScreening of visa-free entry by Cambodians, high-risk Westerners stepped up
THE Immigration Bureau has beefed up screening and controls of visa-free entry by Cambodians and high-risk Westerners amid fears that they may be “mercenaries” entering Thailand to carry out operations behind battlelines with foreign tourists urged to understand this situation, Amarin TV said this afternoon (Dec. 15). This measure was taken after critics and
Read moreSinkhole forces demolition of Samsen police station: Chadchart
BANGKOK Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said today (Oct. 4) that Samsen police station which is on the edge of a massive sinkhole that opened up on Sep. 24 would have to be demolished as it has been sinking with Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) and the contractor to shoulder the over 40 million
Read moreVendor seeks help after paying over a million baht interest on small loan
A FOOD vendor filed a complaint at the Centre for Suppression of Informal Debt that a loan shark has been charging her exorbitant interest on 20,000 baht she borrowed six years ago and after paying over a million baht the principal has not been reduced, Amarin TV said this evening (Aug. 1). Ms. Somsakul
Read moreMedical Council’s action against 3 Thaksin doctors can be appealed: Somchai
THE Medical Council’s vote yesterday (June 12) upholding a decision to warn one doctor and suspend the licence of two others for allowing de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to stay at Police Hospital rather than prison for six months until he was paroled can be appealed but there is also criminal penalty
Read moreCourt trial over Thaksin’s Police Hospital fake-out case delayed
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a technical respite quietly provided for de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, a court trial on the Police Hospital fake-out case against him has been put off until after the next couple of weeks. The Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against
Read moreThree dead in police helicopter crash
A POLICE helicopter crashed in Prachuap Khiri Khan province this afternoon (May 24) killing two pilots and a mechanic but one person managed to bail out, Naewna and Thai Rath newspaper said. The helicopter, later identified as Bell 212 and assigned to Kanchanaburi Aviation Unit, crashed near Prachuap intersection within Wing 5 area with
Read morePolice Hospital’s chief doctor asks for fairness in Thaksin case
POLICE Hospital’s chief doctor sent his lawyer to the Ministry of Public Health to appeal for fairness after the Medical Council punished three doctors for admitting de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra for treatment there for around six months until his released on parole early last year, Amarin TV said yesterday (May 13).
Read moreKlong Prem prison commander transferred over Joe Ferrari’s death
THE Corrections Department today (March 12) transferred the acting commander of Klong Prem Central Prison back to his previous duty with the department’s deputy director-general moving in to take charge while investigation of the death of Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka Superintendent Joe Ferrari, who was found hanged with a towel in a cell
Read morePrison guard chief transferred over Joe Ferrari’s death
THE chief guard of the Klong Prem Central Prison zone where Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka Superintendent Joe Ferrari, was found hanged with a towel on Friday night has been transferred to the general administration department, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (March 10). Mr. Phedchet Hringrot, director of Central Correctional Institution for Drug Addicts,
Read moreMinister to probe Joe Ferrari being found hanged in prison
JUSTICE Minister Thavi Sodsong said an investigation of the death of Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka Superintendent Joe Ferrari, who had been jailed for life for intentionally torturing a drug suspect to death with two plastic bags and was found hanged at Klong Prem Central Prison would be undertaken, Thai Rath newspaper said today
Read morePolice panel votes to dismiss “Big Joke”
THE POLICE disciplinary committee unanimously voted to dismiss and not lay off former deputy national police chief Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakphan, nicknamed Big Joke, who faced charges of being linked to online gambling websites, Amarin TV said this evening (March 7). The meeting’s resolution will now be forwarded to National Police Chief Pol. Gen.
Read moreThaksin’s medical records feared to be a tall tale: Ex-MP
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A FORMER LAWMAKER has doubted that medical records of Police Hospital on last year’s purported treatment of the “critically-ill” de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra will be entirely based on factual evidence and no tall tale. Ex-Democrat MP/now Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom posted on his Facebook page yesterday
Read moreGraft-busters setting up panel to probe Thaksin’s alleged fake-out at Police Hospital
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN AD HOC COMMITTEE under the National Anti-Corruption Commission will be set up shortly to investigate allegations that a dozen government officials had unduly helped de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra stage a fake-out as a patient with “critical illnesses” at Police Hospital. The anti-graft agency has finally resolved
Read morePolice hunting down ‘foreign gang’ flouting the law
POLICE quickly moved to hunt down a “foreign gang” after they posted a video online flouting the law with Immigration police too warned that those who are lax or take bribes will be punished, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Nov. 22). National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Kittirat Panphet told Deputy National Police Chief Pol.
Read more9 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
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