House police affairs panel insists on face-to-face meeting with PM

[snoop1130]

 

The House Police Affairs Committee is determined to meet with Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin in person, to discuss alleged political interference in the police reshuffle.

 

The committee had earlier asked the prime minister to testify to them over his recent statement, made during a meeting of the Pheu Thai party, regarding the police reshuffle, in particular police superintendents. He was quoted to have said that he had received many requests for promotions involving police superintendents, with several of them being granted and others not.

 

Instead, the prime minister assigned Deputy Prime Minister Somsak Thepsuthin to meet with the committee in parliament today.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-12-07

 

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[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Instead, the prime minister assigned Deputy Prime Minister Somsak Thepsuthin to meet with the committee in parliament today.

Maybe Srettha's busy packing for his next cap-in-hand begging trip to Japan.

[scorecard]

21 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Maybe Srettha's busy packing for his next cap-in-hand begging trip to Japan.

And/or buying / distributing more illegal birthday gifts.

[bamnutsak]

Srettha is wise to stay away from the Police wars.

 

First smart thing he's done in his tenure.

 

[herfiehandbag]

If you have a system where the ultimate authority for such decisions lie with the prime minister, then you can hardly complain when he chooses to exercise that authority.

 

Or is the committee concerned that they may have to return certain envelopes?