Surat Thani tightens permission for mining explosives, devices
The Sunday Nation

SURAT THANI: -- PROVINCIAL authorities in Surat Thani have put on hold requests for the purchase and sale of six items and chemicals used to make explosives for the mining industry - in a bid to prevent future bomb attacks.

Uaychai Innak, deputy governor of Surat Thani, said as a result of the recent car bomb at a major shopping mall on Samui Island in the southern province, a local committee overseeing the buying, selling, transporting and storing of explosive devices met to discuss how best to deal with such requests.

There is a mining in three districts - Don Sak, Kanchanadit and Wiengsa.

Six requests have been put on hold, subject to engineers and related officials examining the sites and requests. Among those deferred are requests for the purchase of detonation wire used in assembling explosives to blast rocks.

In a related development, national police chief Pol General Somyot Poompanmuang said police are convinced that the bomb in Surat Thani was politically motivated and not linked to the insurgency in the three southern-most provinces. But it was made to appear that way by hiring someone with expertise in the deep South do the job in order to mislead the public.

He said there were six to seven suspects but none had been arrested yet as evidence was still being collected. Military power could be used to detain and interrogate suspects before warrants were issued, if necessary

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Surat-Thani-tightens-permission-for-mining-explosi-30258268.html

-- The Nation 2015-04-19

Authorities should have implented these new rules years ago.

"Military power could be used to detain and interrogate suspects before warrants were issued" ... immediate confessions and convictions follow.

Article 44 has reformed Justice.

Authorities should have implented these new rules years ago.

Albeit, there has been no link made between the car bomb and mining industry explosives. Sounds like another wild goose chase.

Authorities should have implented these new rules years ago.

Albeit, there has been no link made between the car bomb and mining industry explosives. Sounds like another wild goose chase.

I worked in Surat in 2011 on a non-mining project that required explosives. Like other, similar projects elsewhere in Thailand, the Army has ultimate jurisdiction and control over the explosives. Upon importation, the Army keeps all the explosives in a magazine inside their nearest regional camp. The Contractor is allowed a weekly or monthly draw down on that inventory, based on daily usage. Local transport of these smaller amounts is under military and/or police escort. This is stored at a smaller, secure, local magazine. The Contractor uses specially modified, monitored and secured vehicles for field distribution. The inventorying of amounts drawn and returned daily at the local magazine is also strictly monitored and reported. Any explosives surplus at the end of the project is returned to the Army. If there's no other user for the remaining explosives, the Army destroys the excess inventory.