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Thailand and Myanmar conduct joint border patrol to suppress drug smuggling
CHIANG RAI, September 4 (TNA) - Thailand and Myanmar conducts a jointly patrol along Mae Sai River, the natural borderline between the two countries, adjacent to the northernmost Thai province of Chiang Rai in a bid to crackdown on cross-border drug smuggling.
The joint patrol by boat led by Police Colonel Thanomsak Yospaen, Chief of the Mae Sai Police Station, was staged for the first time along the boundary river on Sunday as part of the new Thai government’s policy on narcotic suppression. Participating personnel included police unit from the Mae Sai Station, border police from the 327 Mae Chan Border Patrol Police Unit, Chiang Saen District’s marine police, police unit from Chiang Rai Provincial Immigration Office and Mynamese police from Myanmar’s Tachilek Province.
The new task was carried out following a report by military intelligence that a large amount of methamphetamine and heroin are stored near the Thai-Myanmarese border adjacent to Thailand’s Chiang Rai Province waiting to be smuggled into the country.
It is known that drug smugglers usually operate across the Mae Sai River because the river narrowness makes it a suitable smuggling route.
The joint border river patrols will be conducted daily, covering a distance of some 10 kilometers from the 1st Thai- Myanmarese friendship bridge to Koh Chang Sub-district. (TNA)
The joint patrol by boat led by Police Colonel Thanomsak Yospaen, Chief of the Mae Sai Police Station, was staged for the first time along the boundary river on Sunday as part of the new Thai government’s policy on narcotic suppression. Participating personnel included police unit from the Mae Sai Station, border police from the 327 Mae Chan Border Patrol Police Unit, Chiang Saen District’s marine police, police unit from Chiang Rai Provincial Immigration Office and Mynamese police from Myanmar’s Tachilek Province.
The new task was carried out following a report by military intelligence that a large amount of methamphetamine and heroin are stored near the Thai-Myanmarese border adjacent to Thailand’s Chiang Rai Province waiting to be smuggled into the country.
It is known that drug smugglers usually operate across the Mae Sai River because the river narrowness makes it a suitable smuggling route.
The joint border river patrols will be conducted daily, covering a distance of some 10 kilometers from the 1st Thai- Myanmarese friendship bridge to Koh Chang Sub-district. (TNA)
