By Thai Newsroom Reporters SIX POLICE OFFICERS were killed in a plane crash in the sea off Hua Hin today (April 25), police said. Those killed in the plane crash were three police pilots, one police aircraft engineer and two police mechanics aboard the Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft which crashlanded in the
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Two senior police officers shunted out amid probe over Myawaddy scam hub links
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Kitrat Phanphet today (Feb. 11) transferred two senior police officers, commander of 5th Immigration Bureau and commander of Tak provincial police, while investigation is undertaken to determine whether they are linked to the scam hub in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township and human trafficking, Naewna newspaper said. Pol. Maj. Gen. Ekkarat
Read more3 Kalasin policemen arrested for taking bribe to free drug suspect
THREE Mueang Kalasin policemen have been arrested on the charges of taking a large bribe from the sister of a drug suspect to free him in a sting operation mounted by the provincial police, Naewna newspaper reported this afternoon (March 25). Pol. Maj. Gen. Suwan Chienawinthawat, the provincial police commander, confirmed that three policemen
Read moreTwo Bangkok policemen commit suicide, motive unknown
TWO Bangkok policemen, one attached to Phaya Thai station and the other Phahonyothin, committed sucide over the past 24 hours with their motive for their doing so not yet known, Sanook.com said today (Jan. 4). At 4.30 p.m. yesterday Pol. Cpl. Sirisak, head of the traffic unit at Phaya Thai station, was found to have
Read moreFake cops nabbed for extorting money from drug victims
A GANG of five policemen were arrested in southern Pattani province on the charges of intimidating and extorting money and assets from drug addicts and the family of those arrested on drug charges, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Sept. 20). At 3 a.m. this morning Pol. Col. Mustapha Mani, superintendent of Yaring police station,
Read moreTwo policemen, a guard punched up in restaurant brawl
A FRACAS at a barbequed shrimp restaurant led to nine guards badly beating up two off-duty policemen and another guard who moved in to help one of them, Thai Rath newspaper reported this afternoon. A Facebook member shared a video clip of the punch-up, which is going viral on the Thai social media, with this
Read moreTwo feuding ex-policemen injured in fierce gunfight
LIKE A SCENE in an action movie two former policemen, who are brothers-in-law with a long-running feud, engaged in a firefight in Petchaburi province last night (August 19) with both getting injured, one very seriously, Naewna reported today. Pol. Capt. Attawut Somchan, duty officer at Khao Yoi police station, said after examining the scene of
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