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2,000 security-related police still deployed in capital; 250 Red, Yellow Shirt protest cases completed
BANGKOK, July 14 - More than 2,000 crowd-control police remain deployed in the Thai capital and its surrounding provinces to maintain order, while investigations of over 250 cases concerning red and yellow clad-demonstrators have been completed, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
National Police Bureau spokesman Pol Lt-Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen said every police unit has been closely monitoring the situation with army personnel and administrative workers, including 13 companies or 2,015 crowd-control police are deployed in Bangkok and adjacent areas to prevent possible disorder or violence.
Regarding the cases over several years of political demonstrations, Gen Pongsapat said the cases have been divided in three categories; the Yellow Shirts of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), last year's protests of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) Red Shirts and this year's March-May UDD turmoil.
For the PAD, investigations on 127 out of 152 cases have completed, while 25 remain under investigation.
Gen Pongsapat elaborated that the Yellow Shirt's Government House occupation is now being considered by prosecutors, while further investigation of their blockade of Parliament is underway.
Anti-Thaksin Shinawatra protesters seized Government House on August
26, 2008 forcing then prime minister Somchai Wongsawat and his staff to leave the compound.
The protesters occupied the vicinity six months and left the Government House compound after three months in late November to join fellow PAD demonstrators occupying Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports.
Their rallies against government's they claimed as Thaksin proxies ended after the Constitution Court dissolved the People Power Party early December 2009 and the new coalition government led by the Democrat Patty was formed.
For the Red Shirts, the police spokesman said 105 out of 124 cases related to the UDD rallies against the Abhisit Vejjajiva government between April 2009 and January 2010 have been done, 19 remain under investigation.
The case of Red Shirt protesters storming into the Royal Cliff Beach
Resort in Pattaya on April 11, 2009, forcing cancellation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit is now in court, said Gen Pongsapat, adding the prosecutors are now looking into the case which the red-shirted protesters attacking the prime minister's car.
For the last category, Gen Pongsapat said 342 cases occurred this year during UDD rallies between January to the present, 97 regarding grenade attacks and 245 on national security.
Among them, 89 cases were transferred to the Department of Special
Investigation (DSI), one to the Office of the National Anti-Corruption
Commission (NACC), he said, adding that 228 cases are now under investigation while 23 cases are complete. (MCOT online news)
National Police Bureau spokesman Pol Lt-Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen said every police unit has been closely monitoring the situation with army personnel and administrative workers, including 13 companies or 2,015 crowd-control police are deployed in Bangkok and adjacent areas to prevent possible disorder or violence.
Regarding the cases over several years of political demonstrations, Gen Pongsapat said the cases have been divided in three categories; the Yellow Shirts of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), last year's protests of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) Red Shirts and this year's March-May UDD turmoil.
For the PAD, investigations on 127 out of 152 cases have completed, while 25 remain under investigation.
Gen Pongsapat elaborated that the Yellow Shirt's Government House occupation is now being considered by prosecutors, while further investigation of their blockade of Parliament is underway.
Anti-Thaksin Shinawatra protesters seized Government House on August
26, 2008 forcing then prime minister Somchai Wongsawat and his staff to leave the compound.
The protesters occupied the vicinity six months and left the Government House compound after three months in late November to join fellow PAD demonstrators occupying Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports.
Their rallies against government's they claimed as Thaksin proxies ended after the Constitution Court dissolved the People Power Party early December 2009 and the new coalition government led by the Democrat Patty was formed.
For the Red Shirts, the police spokesman said 105 out of 124 cases related to the UDD rallies against the Abhisit Vejjajiva government between April 2009 and January 2010 have been done, 19 remain under investigation.
The case of Red Shirt protesters storming into the Royal Cliff Beach
Resort in Pattaya on April 11, 2009, forcing cancellation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit is now in court, said Gen Pongsapat, adding the prosecutors are now looking into the case which the red-shirted protesters attacking the prime minister's car.
For the last category, Gen Pongsapat said 342 cases occurred this year during UDD rallies between January to the present, 97 regarding grenade attacks and 245 on national security.
Among them, 89 cases were transferred to the Department of Special
Investigation (DSI), one to the Office of the National Anti-Corruption
Commission (NACC), he said, adding that 228 cases are now under investigation while 23 cases are complete. (MCOT online news)
