Deputy National Police Chief suspended

[webfact]

 

Pol Gen Kitrat Panphet, the acting national police chief, has signed the order to suspend deputy national police chief Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn and four more police officers accused of being involved in money laundering in relation to an online gambling network.

 

The order takes affect immediately on April 18. The other four police officers are: Pol Col Kittichai Sangkhathaworn, Pol Lt Col Krit Pariyaket, Pol Sgt Natthawut Wadwaew and Pol Sgt Natthanan Chuchak.

 

Pol Gen Kitrat confirms that everything is being done in due process of the law and the police investigation.

 

He also emphasises that, while he is currently the acting police chief, he has full authority.

 

Pol Gen Kitrat said he had informed the prime minister so that Pol Gen Surachate can be transferred from his inactive post at the Office of the Prime Minister back to the Royal Thai Police headquarters as the disciplinary investigation continues.

 

He cited that the suspension order is issued as the investigation could require a considerable amount of time, during which, the five accused police officers still has the right to appeal.

 

Source: Thai PBS 2024-04-19

 

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[nglodnig]

Teflon-coated?

[Mbolo]

It’s difficult to keep up with this case ! 

[Jack Hammer]

The government should check all of his assets and ask him to explain how he acquire such wealth on a policeman’s salary.  I know the stock answer is he comes from a wealthy family. If his family is that wealthy, why is he a policeman? While they are at it also check all other high-ranking officials

[ezzra]

As if more proofs needed to show how tainted and crooked Thai police are, which begs

the question: how the Thai police can now be trusted at to do a fair job in the light of such accusations

of its senior members?

[Olmate]

Thought he was in Europe on a holiday, visiting the 'godfather' or some such 'excuse me, Im fuccccing off'!! 

[sammieuk1]

Big Kitrat is now running the book show 🤔

[frankie machine]

I knew this guy was bent ever since the Koh Tao farce.  Prior to that, I'd had a lot of respect for him.  

[Lopburikid]

8 minutes ago, Jack Hammer said:

The government should check all of his assets and ask him to explain how he acquire such wealth on a policeman’s salary.  I know the stock answer is he comes from a wealthy family. If his family is that wealthy, why is he a policeman? While they are at it also check all other high-ranking officials

That would mean the government would have to investigate itself.

[herfiehandbag]

Looks a bit rough - almost like he has been sleeping in his car for the last few days!

 

It is of course difficult to discern exactly what is happening - and the truth as to corruption and degrees of corruption is almost irrelevant. The long running power struggle between these two candidates for control of the Police appears to have come to a head, and Pol Gen Kitrat does seem to have played his hand.

Edited April 18 by herfiehandbag

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, nglodnig said:

Teflon-coated?

He's not alone.

[hotchilli]

35 minutes ago, Jack Hammer said:

The government should check all of his assets and ask him to explain how he acquire such wealth on a policeman’s salary.  I know the stock answer is he comes from a wealthy family. If his family is that wealthy, why is he a policeman? While they are at it also check all other high-ranking officials

I'm sure funds have been distributed very carefully among nominees.

[spidermike007]

Hopefully they will find some of his ill gotten gains and convict him. Never bought his white knight nonsense. There are few straight RTP and certainly not at the highest levels. 

 

Lock up the joke. 

[Gandtee]

36 minutes ago, Jack Hammer said:

The government should check all of his assets and ask him to explain how he acquire such wealth on a policeman’s salary.  I know the stock answer is he comes from a wealthy family. If his family is that wealthy, why is he a policeman? While they are at it also check all other high-ranking officials

Maybe women marry policemen because it allows them to grease the wheels in the interests of their businesses?

[Bangkok Barry]

50 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Thought he was in Europe on a holiday, visiting the 'godfather' or some such 'excuse me, Im fuccccing off'!! 

 

He went to the UK with his family for a week, and returned rather than diverted to Dubai on his return. That might tell us something, that he believes he can prove he is innocent. If he isn't, then we have corruption and law breaking in the RTP right up to deputy national police chief level. But we guessed that.

[No Forwarding Address]

Could be a coup in the making??

[rct99q]

Firstly - get wife, kids, anybody he cares about out of Thailand.

 

Secondly - let her rip, who pays who, payoffs, bribes, name names, supply any documents, etc.

 

Then see what happens.

[mikeymike100]

50 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I'm sure funds have been distributed very carefully among nominees.

Yes, having the corrupt investigate the corrupt, won't work.

The only teal way is to have a completely independent group, who are above any suspicion to do any investigation, trying to find a group like that in Thailand would be 'almost' impossible!

[JoePai]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

how the Thai police can now be trusted at to do a fair job

555 you mean you've trusted them in the past  

[Zack61]

Just wondering what the roles of two sergeants were. Seems a strange mix alongside a general and two colonels. 

[RobU]

2 hours ago, Jack Hammer said:

The government should check all of his assets and ask him to explain how he acquire such wealth on a policeman’s salary.  I know the stock answer is he comes from a wealthy family. If his family is that wealthy, why is he a policeman? While they are at it also check all other high-ranking officials

He was wealthy BEFORE he joined the police force. He and his wife come from wealthy families

[RobU]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

As if more proofs needed to show how tainted and crooked Thai police are, which begs

the question: how the Thai police can now be trusted at to do a fair job in the light of such accusations

of its senior members?

You forget that the people making the accusations are also corrupt according to your philosophy. Therefore the whole thing could be a fit up based on lies

[newbee2022]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Pol Gen Kitrat Panphet, the acting national police chief, has signed the order to suspend deputy national police chief Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn and four more police officers accused of being involved in money laundering in relation to an online gambling network.

 

The order takes affect immediately on April 18. The other four police officers are: Pol Col Kittichai Sangkhathaworn, Pol Lt Col Krit Pariyaket, Pol Sgt Natthawut Wadwaew and Pol Sgt Natthanan Chuchak.

 

Pol Gen Kitrat confirms that everything is being done in due process of the law and the police investigation.

 

He also emphasises that, while he is currently the acting police chief, he has full authority.

 

Pol Gen Kitrat said he had informed the prime minister so that Pol Gen Surachate can be transferred from his inactive post at the Office of the Prime Minister back to the Royal Thai Police headquarters as the disciplinary investigation continues.

 

He cited that the suspension order is issued as the investigation could require a considerable amount of time, during which, the five accused police officers still has the right to appeal.

 

Source: Thai PBS 2024-04-19

 

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He stepped on to someone's feet?

Just to cover up they fired him?😳

[shackleton]

I thought he was one of  the better ones who could not be corrupted 

Seems  like I was wrong 😕 

Looks like it's epidemic through out the police force 🤑

[RobU]

11 minutes ago, Zack61 said:

Just wondering what the roles of two sergeants were. Seems a strange mix alongside a general and two colonels. 

The sergeants are usually the gophers doing all the grunt work. If the leaders had been lower rank they would have been simple police officers.  and they can communicate better with the lower ranks getting information where the rank of the senior officers would intimidate 

Edited April 19 by RobU

[klauskunkel]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Pol Gen Kitrat confirms that everything is being done in due process of the law and the police investigation.

Thank you for assuring the public about "due process", "the law", "self-investigation" and stuff. It sounds so officious and seems to validate all of it. Yet, this statement has been trumpeted so many times by the RTP that the public could probably recite it by rote. Everything the RTP touches is done by the book and everyone in the RTP is corrupt. Go figure...

[Andre0720]

I was under the impression that any police officer being promoted to a higher level, promotion paid for or not, was promoted under the condition that this individual would do just about nothing to change the culture and ways of policing here.

 

So I was wrong so it appears...

[Dan O]

3 hours ago, Lopburikid said:

That would mean the government would have to investigate itself.

not just the government

[stats]

A pair of off-topic trolling posts have been removed.

 

[RobU]

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

As if more proofs needed to show how tainted and crooked Thai police are, which begs

the question: how the Thai police can now be trusted at to do a fair job in the light of such accusations

of its senior members?

Sorry I missed your comment about why does he work if he is wealthy. You seem to think that if someone is wealthy they shouldn't work. That is a rather silly assumption. He joined the police as a vocation, the amount of salary he receives is irrelevant to him, he doesn't need it. He is probably the least corruptible officer in the RTP.