Thai Police Inspector ' Was Part Of Hunting Party'

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Police inspector 'was part of hunting party'

KWANHATHAI MALAKAN

THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- Deputy police chief Pansiri Prapawat said yesterday that additional inquiries conducted at the request of the public prosecutor had found evidence that Prachuap Khiri Khan inspector Pol Lt-Colonel Thirayuth Katemungmee was indeed involved in illegal hunting in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi from November 8-10.

After meeting investigators, Provincial Administration Department head Chuan Sirinanporn and Kaeng Krachan district chief Khajornsak Somboon yesterday, Pansiri said investigation on 12 additional issues showed that Thirayuth had played a role in renting the boat, camping, cooking wildlife and other hunting-related activities. The police officer was previously not indicted in the case.

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Pansiri said the investigation report would be submitted to the prosecutor before Friday, adding that the witnesses had been provided with additional security and any threats made would be reported to the police and Phetchaburi governor.

The deputy police chief added that if Thirayuth ends up being indicted, he would be suspended from civil service and police would use the investigation report to launch another severe disciplinary probe.

Pansiri went on to say that the previous police investigator of the case, Pol Lt-Colonel Kollayuth Wongphetch had also been transferred to assist Provincial Police Region 7 and faced a disciplinary probe.

-- The Nation 2013-02-12

[coma]

Very brave men / women these witnesses indeed. All the 'additional security' in the world may struggle to protect them.

[wdr]

Provincial Polce Region 7. Where is this region? Would bebetter transfer them to an active post. Far south I. e. Yala. Very good to hunt and get hunted.

[Chao Lao Beach]

Send him to the far south for 4 years, probably more a of punishment than a inactive post !

[Locationthailand]

Above the law?

[onlycw]

Do they ever lose their jobs, their pensions and get suspended without pay?!?

Take the LAPD. Turns out that sniper on a rampage told the truth when he

reported abuse of a prisoner. But the corrupt organization always wins, huh?

[CobraSnakeNecktie]

what were they hunting? and what did they kill and eat?

Seems a major detail to leave out of the reporters article.

[Briggsy]

They ate what they killed apparently. It was hunting for thrills rather than profit the reports said. Many Thais believe eating wild animals is in some way 'special'.

[noitom]

This is a very big surprise for an upright place like Thailand. And they plan to investigate and possibly charge him, even more surprising.

[CobraSnakeNecktie]

They ate what they killed apparently. It was hunting for thrills rather than profit the reports said. Many Thais believe eating wild animals is in some way 'special'.

That could be anything. Squirrels, Tigers, Deer, Snake, Feral pigs, wild dogs, Insects.

They could have killed an endangered native species or a pest that should be controlled.

The lack of details in Thai reporting is sometimes staggering.

[Pimay1]

They ate what they killed apparently. It was hunting for thrills rather than profit the reports said. Many Thais believe eating wild animals is in some way 'special'.

That could be anything. Squirrels, Tigers, Deer, Snake, Feral pigs, wild dogs, Insects.

They could have killed an endangered native species or a pest that should be controlled.

The lack of details in Thai reporting is sometimes staggering.

I think the original story said they killed and cooked a mouse deer among other things.

[Briggsy]

From the scanty reports I have read they definitely killed a mouse deer. This is definitely a protected species in a clearly defined area where hunting is specifically forbidden. I didn't bother looking in the Thai press. There are often more details there.

Unsurprisingly, the focus of the press is on the political implications for this senior police officer.

I reckon someone has seen an opportunity to advance themselves at his expense and thus pressure is being applied. Fear not, police inspectors are not going to see the inside of a prison cell unless they really challenge the system. His career will be put on hold though. That is the punishment. It is like chess. The villagers who fetched and carried for him have no postion in the game so they are instantly checkmated and sent to prison. The police inspector loses a knight thus his position in the game is weakened but he can still play on. Multiple transgressions might see him in more trouble but I really don't know what he have to do to get sent down, probably shoot somebody in front of rolling tv cameras.

[CobraSnakeNecktie]

Hmm. killing and eating Bambi... That's going to be a career stumbling block as well as delicious nutritious eats.

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[Buchholz]

what were they hunting? and what did they kill and eat?

Seems a major detail to leave out of the reporters article.

endangered small deer known as chevrotains

I suppose it's progress that it only took the police four months for them to assess from the photos of the rotund police lieutenant-colonel's greasy fingers, 100 Pipers swilling, sitting with the arrested poachers in a protected national park that, indeed, the

Police Inspector 'Was Part Of Hunting Party'

How very astute of them to suss that out.

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[Pimay1]

what were they hunting? and what did they kill and eat?

Seems a major detail to leave out of the reporters article.

endangered small deer known as chevrotains

I suppose it's progress that it only the police four months for them to assess from the photos of the rotund police lieutenant-colonel's greasy fingers, 100 Pipers swilling, sitting with the arrested poachers in a protected national park that, indeed, the

Police Inspector 'Was Part Of Hunting Party'

how very astute of them to suss that out.

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Protected species doesn't mean much here. After all DPM Plodprasop was selling protected species at the Night Safari restaurant in CM. Look what it did for him.

[kimamey]

They ate what they killed apparently. It was hunting for thrills rather than profit the reports said. Many Thais believe eating wild animals is in some way 'special'.

Don't worry about it they're undoubtedly devout Buddhists so they'll go and make merit and it'll all be OK.

[SparklingCascades]

How do we get rid of such trash from our police force ? Due process is time-consuming & witnesses often feel intimidated - something people in power count on when offending.

[Considered Opinion]

They ate what they killed apparently. It was hunting for thrills rather than profit the reports said. Many Thais believe eating wild animals is in some way 'special'.

Don't worry about it they're undoubtedly devout Buddhists so they'll go and make merit and it'll all be OK.

Sort of like a Catholic you mean?

[richusa]

All killed with stolen AK-47's.....

[richusa]

I think Chalerm was passed out behind that tree.

[stoli]

Do they ever lose their jobs, their pensions and get suspended without pay?!?

Take the LAPD. Turns out that sniper on a rampage told the truth when he

reported abuse of a prisoner. But the corrupt organization always wins, huh?

Where did you learn, when no one else has, that he told the truth.

[GentlemanJim]

Police inspector 'was part of hunting party'

It must have taken Sherlock Holmes himself to conclude such a difficult thing to determine!

[Payboy]

what were they hunting?

Think it was the rogue chupacabra that goes about pixelating alcoholic drinks in national parks.

[xkmasada]

Isn't "inspector" one of those inactive posts that the civil service throws people in rather than firing them?