Police chief admits mistake after cops shoot up the wrong car injuring woman

[webfact]

Police chief admits mistake after cops shoot up the wrong car injuring woman

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The police chief in Trang in the south of Thailand has admitted that a mistake was made after officers from the Huay Yot district shot at the wrong fleeing car. 

 

They mistook a Nissan Almera for a Nissan Juke. 

 

They shot an entirely innocent female clerk in the leg. Fortunately she is recovering in hospital.

 

Trouble had flared in neighboring Krabi province in Klong Tom district during a domestic dispute in which a man held his wife at a house. 

 

Police and a phu yai ban were injured in a shootout and the husband took off with the wife in a white Nissan Juke.

 

Officers in Trang thought they had found the right car and shot at it. It turned out to be a Nissan Almera and fishing business clerk Neungruthai, 29, was hit in the left thigh. Her husband, the driver, and relatives in the back were uninjured. 

 

The husband has promised legal action.

 

Krabi provincial police chief Pol Maj-Gen Santhat Winson admitted a mistake had been made and promised justice for all putting the local police chief in charge of an investigative committee. He said 10 officers were involved in the error. 

 

He said he had visited the victim in hospital. The bullet had been extracted from her leg and she was recovering. Luckily it didn't hit a main artery.

 

Soure: Daily News

 

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[Dagfinnur Traustason]

Very similar! ????????????????????

[colinneil]

42 minutes ago, webfact said:

The husband has promised legal action.

Yes and rightly so, bloody ridiculous shooting at a car, not even knowing it was the correct car.

What can you expect though from the pathetic plods?

[spiekerjozef]

They mistook a white car with a blue car.

[LungKen]

So it was said  "oops my bad" after all what else could be said though he did get the bullet back and will match it up with the officers involved weapons' to just check to who will pay for it all,  IMHO.

[animalmagic]

1 hour ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

Very similar! ????????????????????

Yeah, the Juke is probably one of the ugliest and most recognisable shapes around!

Mind you, I have just seen a Farang at Big C take his trolley to a white Honda Jazz, press the remote door lock and try to get in.  After several seconds he realised that the 'beep-beep' noise was coming from his white Toyota Yaris parked 3 spaces away.

[sammieuk1]

The chief must be a bit relived his officers hit something at all but now he will have to come up will at least 10k compo and a fair few wai's ???? 

[klauskunkel]

He will have to pay for a new car, hospital stay, future health issues, recompensation for injuries...

probably has to reopen a few of his gambling dens he preemptively shut down before...

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

They shot an entirely innocent female clerk in the leg. Fortunately she is recovering in hospital.

 

After consuming an entire basket of Essence of Chicken provided free by the local constabulary......

[Asquith Production]

1 hour ago, animalmagic said:

Yeah, the Juke is probably one of the ugliest and most recognisable shapes around!

Mind you, I have just seen a Farang at Big C take his trolley to a white Honda Jazz, press the remote door lock and try to get in.  After several seconds he realised that the 'beep-beep' noise was coming from his white Toyota Yaris parked 3 spaces away.

Thats why it is called the Joke

 

[metisdead]

An off topic post has been removed. 

[Bender Rodriguez]

well, gangs also shoot the wrong person sometimes, and the men in brown are a gang after all

[ab1594]

Some other province police did this a couple of years ago too and it cost them a brand new Hybrid Camry 1.5milion and all the hospital bills too if i remember correctly

[Srikcir]

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

Yes and rightly so, bloody ridiculous shooting at a car, not even knowing it was the correct car.

What can you expect though from the pathetic plods?

Regardless of it not being the correct car, police firing at the vehicle wherein the alleged abuse victim wife might be inside along her husband's side is a massive error in judgement. 

But apparently the police didn't look beyond the color of the vehicle, taking no effort to ascertain who is in the vehicle. 

This looks like a "cowboy" take down. 

[andersonat]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Krabi provincial police chief Pol Maj-Gen Santhat Winson admitted a mistake had been made and promised justice for all putting the local police chief in charge of an investigative committee

 

The *least* that General Santhat could have done is to put a *non*-local Police Chief in charge of the Investigative Committee.

 

 

[Megasin1]

I can understand anyone wanting to shoot up a Juke, its common sense as anyone with that sort of taste should be shot for the good of humanity, they just need to improve their aim, although you could say they are getting closer, as it was at least another hideous Nissan ????

[Bangkok Barry]

7 hours ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

Very similar! ????????????????????

 

Four wheels. Of course they are alike. Easy mistake to make ????

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

Many years ago in Bangkok, a police started shooting at a bus full of passengers because the bus did not stop for a red light.

[bangon04]

7 hours ago, colinneil said:

Yes and rightly so, bloody ridiculous shooting at a car, not even knowing it was the correct car.

What can you expect though from the pathetic plods?

"He said 10 officers were involved in the error. "  - that was quite a hail of bullets - lucky only one injury...   such marksmanship.

[2530Ubon]

Well the police are going to have a big bill on their hands once she's finished with them in the courts.

 

Look out residents of Trang - They're going to be relentlessly issuing no helmet fines, no seatbelt fines, alcohol checkpoints, waiting outside of each gambling den and any bar open past the shut out time to collect their cut on a daily basis. Daddy's got a bill to pay, and it ain't coming from his pocket...

[DB58]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Trouble had flared in neighboring Krabi province in Klong Tom district during a domestic dispute in which a man held his wife at a house

WOW, tough on domestic violence, doesn’t seem there was any attempt to let the suspect surrender. If they would have no doubt they would have realized they had the wrong vehicle.

[Road Warrior]

gun crazy comes to mind !!! or just human error !!??

[bobandyson]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

The police chief in Trang in the south of Thailand has admitted that a mistake was made after officers from the Huay Yot district shot at the wrong fleeing car. 

 

When idiots pay for their promotions.........you get idiots in high positions.

 

[Thingamabob]

The local police chief is in charge so the case will be thoroughly investigated.......