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Mon, 09/27/2010 - 19:34
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Police chief orders all stations to prevent violent incidents in Thai capital
BANGKOK, Sept 27 - Following repeated grenade attacks in the capital during the past week despite a continuing state of emergency, Thailand's national police chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosreei on Monday instructed police across Bangkok to apply proactive measures to prevent possible violence, while warning them of being disciplined for further bombs.
The police chief comments as he called a meeting of concerned police officials to lay out measures to handle bomb attacks to cause disturbances in Bangkok.
Gen Wichean said he told the metropolitan police to be on high alert around the clock and adjust their patrols and operations at checkpoints. The new measures take effect Monday midnight and will be assessed in 15 days.
If any grenade attack occurs, there will be revision on the work of the police personnel who supervise the area where the incident occurred they may be disciplined if their operation is found lax, according to the national police chief.
Gen Wichean also appointed Pol Gen Panupong Singhara na Ayutthaya, an adviser to the national police chief, to head a committee to investigate the four recent Bangkok bombings.
Gen Panupong said if the four cases were found to be linked to terrorism, the Department of Special Investigation will be authorised to prosecute the cases, but for now no conclusion has been as to whether they are linked or not.
Pol Maj-Gen Piya Uthayo, spokesman for Bangkok's metropolitan police, said the metro police will adjust their patrol system and increase checkpoints to 467 special-monitoring spots.
He said metropolitan police commanders will meet Monday night to lay out stiff measures to prevent possible violence.
The latest police reaction followed the four incidents--including the Sunday bomb near the Nang Lerng race track (the Royal Turf Club) and three others outside Santirat Wittayalai school in Bangkok on September 8 and at the parking areas of a shopping mall and the Ministry of Public Health Ministry in Nonthaburi.
Police bomb experts believed the perpetrators in the four incidents are the same persons, and that they want to challenge the state authority, causing unease and public fear.
Wellwishers also offered rewards totaling Bt400,000, or Bt100,000 for each of four bombing incidents, to persons providing clues leading to the arrest of the as yet unidentified bombers.
Bangkok, the adjacent provinces of Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan and Pathum Thani, as well as the northeastern provinces of Udon Thani, Khon Kaen and Nakhon Ratchasima. (MCOT online news)
The police chief comments as he called a meeting of concerned police officials to lay out measures to handle bomb attacks to cause disturbances in Bangkok.
Gen Wichean said he told the metropolitan police to be on high alert around the clock and adjust their patrols and operations at checkpoints. The new measures take effect Monday midnight and will be assessed in 15 days.
If any grenade attack occurs, there will be revision on the work of the police personnel who supervise the area where the incident occurred they may be disciplined if their operation is found lax, according to the national police chief.
Gen Wichean also appointed Pol Gen Panupong Singhara na Ayutthaya, an adviser to the national police chief, to head a committee to investigate the four recent Bangkok bombings.
Gen Panupong said if the four cases were found to be linked to terrorism, the Department of Special Investigation will be authorised to prosecute the cases, but for now no conclusion has been as to whether they are linked or not.
Pol Maj-Gen Piya Uthayo, spokesman for Bangkok's metropolitan police, said the metro police will adjust their patrol system and increase checkpoints to 467 special-monitoring spots.
He said metropolitan police commanders will meet Monday night to lay out stiff measures to prevent possible violence.
The latest police reaction followed the four incidents--including the Sunday bomb near the Nang Lerng race track (the Royal Turf Club) and three others outside Santirat Wittayalai school in Bangkok on September 8 and at the parking areas of a shopping mall and the Ministry of Public Health Ministry in Nonthaburi.
Police bomb experts believed the perpetrators in the four incidents are the same persons, and that they want to challenge the state authority, causing unease and public fear.
Wellwishers also offered rewards totaling Bt400,000, or Bt100,000 for each of four bombing incidents, to persons providing clues leading to the arrest of the as yet unidentified bombers.
Bangkok, the adjacent provinces of Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan and Pathum Thani, as well as the northeastern provinces of Udon Thani, Khon Kaen and Nakhon Ratchasima. (MCOT online news)
