Two cops wounded in Bangkok drugs gunfight

By The Nation

 

Two Bangkok police corporals are in hospital with gunshot wounds after trading fire with a drug suspect early Monday morning.

 

Monthian Panrokha, 36, is accused of shooting the officers when they raided a rented room in a community on Soi Kanchanapisek 8/1 in Khan Na Yao district at 1.30am.

 

Suthep Boonyuen, 32, was shot twice in the left arm and Sarawut Nakphan, 30, was shot once at his abdomen. They were taken to Nopparat Hospital.

 

Police seized a pistol, 5,000 methamphetamine pills and 200 grams of crystal meth.

 

Monthian said he’d gone to the room to buy drugs from a man he knew only as Toon, who he said fled through the back of the house.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30342257

 

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Guess they went to the drug dealers home in their normal uniform?

Unprepared?

Don't they expect violence from a drug dealer?

In other countries a proper SWAT team would go even for a knife wielding criminal.

 

 

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

Guess they went to the drug dealers home in their normal uniform?

Unprepared?

Don't they expect violence from a drug dealer?

In other countries a proper SWAT team would go even for a knife wielding criminal.

 

 

I wasn't there and don't know anyone that was. From personal experience in that line of work, (not the drug dealer), the ordinary uniformed person here,  would be poorly trained or equipped to handle anything more than a helmet checkpoint or a loud music complaint (that's a laugh in itself).

2 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Guess they went to the drug dealers home in their normal uniform?

Unprepared?

Don't they expect violence from a drug dealer?

In other countries a proper SWAT team would go even for a knife wielding criminal.

 

 

What happened to the Pattaya SWAT guys, and foreign counter terrorists?