snoop1130 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 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. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30367719 -- © Copyright The Nation 2019-04-15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Triangle Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeePeeMai Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 If this indeed turns out to be an inside job, the perpetrators need to be dealt with harshly...….send them to an inactive post! ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer90210 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Maybe some drunk in brown, mistook them for waterguns and "borrowed" them for Songkran ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisY1 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny1990 Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Hmmm inside job? But how possible its only police working there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moti24 Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 13 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Inside job suspected..... I think a 2-year-old could have sussed that out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun Paul Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 It takes the Police Chief to tell them to investigate speedily, knows his lazy corrupt officers then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Store your guns in the finance room no wonder he is a general ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chama Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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