The Metropolitan Police Bureau has set up about 100 checkpoints throughout Bangkok to check drivers and motorcyclists for alcohol consumption, starting at noon today (Wednesday), because drinking increases during the Songkran festival.

 

100 more checkpoints have been set up in Bangkok to check drivers for traffic law compliance and to make sure users of motorcycles wear crash helmets.

 

Pol Maj-Gen Jirasan Kaewsang-ek, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, said that about 4,000 policemen are deployed in and around Bangkok to ensure peace and order and to enforce traffic laws strictly during the Songkran festival, as the annual mass exodus from Bangkok to celebrate the traditional Thai New Year starts today.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/bangkok-police-start-random-drunk-driving-checks-on-wednesday/

 

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12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Metropolitan Police Bureau has set up about 100 checkpoints throughout Bangkok to check drivers and motorcyclists for alcohol consumption, starting at noon today (Wednesday), because drinking increases during the Songkran festival.

Should be 365 days of the year.

How many police are employed to check on the 4000 police? Last year at a Songkran lunch at a friends house with local policeman already sitting at the table in uniform on his break, drunk as a skunk with his rifle next to him. He took out the magazine, passed the rifle to me to have a feel of it. It was an interesting experience. He got into his pick up and drove off going back to work.