Inside job suspected as probe opens into 11 guns missing from Thong Lor police station

By Jessada Chantharak 
The Nation

 

 

National police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda has instructed officers to speedily investigate the case of 11 guns that went missing from Bangkok’s Thong Lor police station in what is suspected to have been an inside job, Metropolitan Police Division 5 chief Pol Maj-General Mongkol Warunno said on Monday.

 

Nine revolvers and two SIG Sauer semi-automatic pistols went missing from where they had been stored in the station’s third-floor finance room, Mongkol said. 

 

The guns were there when an inventory check was conducted last October, but were nowhere to be seen by the time another check was carried out last month, on the occasion of a new superintendent’s assignment, he explained. 

 

A precinct-level fact-finding committee has therefore been set up to probe what happened to the missing firearms and who took them away, the division chief said, adding that the investigation should be completed within seven days. 

 

In parallel, the Metropolitan Police Division 5 has sent an investigation team to interview potential witnesses and check CCTV footage in relation to the missing guns, he said, suggesting that it had likely been an inside job as the firearms were kept in an area that is normally beyond the access of outsiders. 

 

If this proved to be the case, the culprit(s) would face disciplinary and criminal-code punishments, as it would be a matter of malfeasance of duty and corruption concerning state property, Mongkol said.

 

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25 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

A precinct-level fact-finding committee has therefore been set up

So so glad to hear this, why weren't the weapons secured in an armoury, with a certified and competent person in charge of said armoury ?? OOOPs sorry people I just woke up and realised where I am 

Wow, the last inventory check was made 6 months ago. Hmmmmm

 

Back in my day, it was the desk sergeant's duty to conduct a weapons locker inventory EVERY SHIFT.

If this indeed turns out to be an inside job, the perpetrators need to be dealt with harshly...….send them to an inactive post! ????

Maybe some drunk in brown,  mistook them for waterguns and "borrowed" them for Songkran ?

Although the disappeared handguns were Sigs and S&W...I have to wonder how many of the original 150,000 Sigs are still around.....the mind boggles that such a quantity was purchased and handed around.....also wonder what the commissions came to?

Hmmm inside job?

But how possible its only police working there.

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Inside job suspected.....

I think a 2-year-old could have sussed that out!

It takes the Police Chief to tell them to investigate speedily, knows his lazy corrupt officers then. 

Store your guns in the finance room no wonder he is a general ????

The guns were taken between October and last month, and they are going to check CCTV. Yep, that'll solve the mystery. I never cease to be amazed at the moronic statements made by supposedly responsible people in this country. As for the fact-finding committee, good luck with that.

8 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

The guns were taken between October and last month, and they are going to check CCTV. Yep, that'll solve the mystery. I never cease to be amazed at the moronic statements made by supposedly responsible people in this country. As for the fact-finding committee, good luck with that.

 

Have you ever met any? I'm still looking!

Apparently the only people with access were RTP? One (at least) must have been down on fleecing the public and has now resorted to flat out theft. But the security is tight. I'm sure it will never happen again. At least not very often. I hope.