Police officer faces second misconduct accusation

[snoop1130]

Police officer faces second misconduct accusation

By Jessada Chantharak 
The Nation

 

Outspoken lawyer Atchariya Reungratanapong

 

Outspoken lawyer Atchariya Reungratanapong on Monday lodged a complaint of misconduct against an embattled police officer after two men caught in possession of drugs were able to walk off scot-free.

 

Atchariya, who is also chairman of the Facebook-based Help Crime Victims Club, met with Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin at police headquarters to request that a serious disciplinary investigation be launched against Pol Lt-Colonel Pratuan Malaengtab of Chokchai police. It is the second time the same officer has faced such an accusation.

 

Pratuan is accused of intervening in the case of Jeerawat Pudbumrung and Panida Yaemkhayai, who were arrested with three kilograms of “ice” by officers from the 191 Patrol and Special Operation Division on March 22.

 

The lawyer claims that the arresting officers gave the evidence and arrest report to Pratuan, who then hid them away. The case was therefore not filed for indictment by the prosecutor within the 84-day legal time frame, so the suspects were released from detention and did not face any action.

 

Atchariya said the superintendent of Chokchai police, Pol Colonel Chakkapan Chantara-uthai, only learned about the alleged wrongdoing on June 28.

 

Pratuan has already been transferred to an inactive post at the Metropolitan Police Division 4 Office after being accused in a separate case of delaying a stolen vehicle investigation and failing to report progress in the case to the 42-year-old victim, Praiwan Saelee.

 

Praiwan, who claimed to have been cheated by a money-lender of his Mazda pick-up truck in January 2018, committed suicide in a Samut Prakan apartment room in May out of stress and desperation – and left a suicide note asking Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to seek justice on his behalf.

 

His relatives say he told them that he reported the truck as stolen with a Bangkok police officer but was told he needed to pay a Bt5,000 investigation fee.

 

Pratuan maintains he is innocent of any wrongdoing in the Praiwan case.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30372066

 

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[bangkokfrog]

I'm sure he didn't mean to commit such a serious crime... it's just that he enjoyed the inactive post so much.

[neeray]

He obviously is not deserving of a Thai police franchise. Either he has failed to read the (invisible) rule book or at least failed to play by said rules.

[Geoffggi]

The inactive post office must be HUGE ....... 

[Chazar]

6 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

The inactive post office must be HUGE ....... 

they  all  look  pretty  inactive to  me

[PatOngo]

18 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

The inactive post office must be HUGE ....... 

Actually, the inactive post is rather boring!

 

[sammieuk1]

Only the second misconduct charge make him Maj-Gen-pol-Col he is a star in the making????   

[Eric Loh]

How many more corruption and misconduct before Prayut reform the police he promised when he seized power. 

[Gimino]

Just one of millions of reasons why the police nationwide bear the distrust and disdain of

the Thai public, not to mention foreign residents who have fallen victim to police misconduct. 

I recall witnessing one incident when a police officer was told he would be reported for taking

money rather than writing a ticket for a fictional driving infraction. He merely laughed as he walked

away stating nothing would come of it. He found the threat humorous.

[Misterwhisper]

2 hours ago, Chazar said:

they  all  look  pretty  inactive to  me

It's a staggered system, apparently:

 

Level 1 - inactive

Level 2 - inactiver

Level 3 - inactivest

 

Most police officer harbor dreams of eventually reaching the coveted level 3, because it is most conducive to pursue what they're doing best: nothing. 

[Briggsy]

4 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

It's a staggered system, apparently:

 

Level 1 - inactive

Level 2 - inactiver

Level 3 - inactivest

 

Most police officer harbor dreams of eventually reaching the coveted level 3, because it is most conducive to pursue what they're doing best: nothing. 

It is normal for gangs to make it as near as impossible for members to leave.

[sawadeeken]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

His relatives say he told them that he reported the truck as stolen with a Bangkok police officer but was told he needed to pay a Bt5,000 investigation fee.

LET'S HOPE THAT IN THE FUTURE.... citizens continue to publicise wrong doings by the corrupt cops... as in this situation....

[spidermike007]

There are multiple reasons why nobody takes the police seriously here. They rarely engage in law enforcement. They are franchisees. So, even the expectation of them enforcing the law, and behaving like the police we see all around the world, is a bizarre expectation, and one that is bound to meet with disappointment, frustration, and confusion.

 

Accept them for who and what they are. And acknowledge that the army is here to protect them, and their franchises, and to make sure nothing changes or progresses, and nobody ever gets held accountable. 

[katana]

9 hours ago, Briggsy said:

It is normal for gangs to make it as near as impossible for members to leave.

Sounds a bit like the EU.

[bangrak]

13 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

How many more corruption and misconduct before Prayut reform the police he promised when he seized power. 

Right Khun Eric, and you know who the RTP was the pretorian guard of, before the 2014 coup, don't you?

So, please, as right as you might here be, go hide somewhere in a deep cave, as some person you are (profesionally?) related to might be a (BIG) part of the RTP's un-punished corrupt behaviour!

The 'recuperation' of the RTP ...and the RTAF, by the green boys after the 'last'(?!) 'coup' probably a cause of stomach ache to the someone you, ahum, 'seem' to, serve the interests of at the best of your capacity...

But, end of the line, indeed, the RTP was not 'purged', nor from 'thaksinitis' yet (oops, I named the Dark Lord), nor, even more difficult, from corruption.

When d'you start writing about what's wrong, and right, without any 'etiquette', or would it, maybe, not be of any interest to you when/if not to serve someone's interests...?

[bangrak]

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There are multiple reasons why nobody takes the police seriously here. They rarely engage in law enforcement. They are franchisees. So, even the expectation of them enforcing the law, and behaving like the police we see all around the world, is a bizarre expectation, and one that is bound to meet with disappointment, frustration, and confusion.

 

Accept them for who and what they are. And acknowledge that the army is here to protect them, and their franchises, and to make sure nothing changes or progresses, and nobody ever gets held accountable. 

'spidermike007', when one learns about the origins of police force under Siamese Monarchy, and not least what 'incentives' were created to 'fixate' the ones representing the Royal authority in some geographic place, what they were allowed(!) to 'take' (a-hum!), from the locals, one does really not need to look for any other explanation for the baked-in, endemic, corruption within this 'corps', which has, IMO, sadly, become the N°1 'mafia' organisation in the land.  

[CMNightRider]

I'm surprised this ever made the news.