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Police cut security by half as Bangkok demonstration ends
BANGKOK, Sept 20 (TNA) -- The number of police providing security at Bangkok’s Royal Plaza and nearby areas was to be reduced by half after the demonstration organised by anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) ended peacefully, as scheduled, at midnight Saturday, said a spokesman of the Bangkok Metropolitan Police.
The manpower of the units providing security in the capital’s government-oriented Dusit district is expected to be cut by half before the end of the five-day enforcement of the Internal Security Act (ISA), imposed by the government since last Friday.
Nonetheless, plainclothes police will continue to gather intelligence aimed at preventing “third hand” groups from creating disturbances, he said.
About 4,000 police have been deployed in the area since Saturday, when United Front protesters rallied to commemorate the third anniversary of the bloodless coup which toppled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2006.
Thanking the protesters for not initiating any violence during the demonstration, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, who supervises national security, said he had no comment on a UDD plan to hold another rally against the government in October.
Whether the government will implement the Internal Security Act during the demonstration next month depends entirely on the situation, said Mr. Suthep. (TNA)
The manpower of the units providing security in the capital’s government-oriented Dusit district is expected to be cut by half before the end of the five-day enforcement of the Internal Security Act (ISA), imposed by the government since last Friday.
Nonetheless, plainclothes police will continue to gather intelligence aimed at preventing “third hand” groups from creating disturbances, he said.
About 4,000 police have been deployed in the area since Saturday, when United Front protesters rallied to commemorate the third anniversary of the bloodless coup which toppled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2006.
Thanking the protesters for not initiating any violence during the demonstration, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, who supervises national security, said he had no comment on a UDD plan to hold another rally against the government in October.
Whether the government will implement the Internal Security Act during the demonstration next month depends entirely on the situation, said Mr. Suthep. (TNA)
