Three Lumpini police officers removed for failing to find bombing suspect's footages

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Three Lumpini police officers removed for failing to find bombing suspect's footages



BANGKOK: -- Three police officers of Lumpini police station were transferred to inactive posts at the metropolitan police bureau for 30 days for failing in their performance of duty in connection with the investigation into the Erawan Shrine bomb explosion on August 17.

The three officers facing the abrupt transfer are Pol Lt-Col Apichart Thongchandee, deputy superintendent for investigation; Pol Lt-Col Thanet Meethong and Pol Lt-Col Vachiralongkorn Wongboon, both investigative inspectors.

Pol Maj-Gen Charnthep Sesavech, deputy commissioner of metropolitan police bureau, said that the three officers were assigned to look video footages of the yellow-shirted suspected bomber from al the surveillance cameras in the Lumpini area but they failed to find any besides the ones which showed the suspect walking away from the shire and riding a motorcycle taxi away from the scene shortly before the explosion.

However, police later found footages at a toilet in the Lumpini park which shows the suspect holding a bag at the toilet and eventually leaving the toilet in a different shirt.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/three-lumpini-police-officers-removed-for-failing-to-find-bombing-suspects-footages


-- Thai PBS 2015-09-28

[Somtamnication]

Arai wa?

[chiang mai]

We'll have some more of that if we may, lots more.

[falangjim]

However, police later found footages at a toilet in the Lumpini park which...

They found footage in the toilet or they found footage of the bomber at the toilet, the latter I believe, but TIT.

This whole story belongs in the toilet.

[fritzzz25]

Did they have to return their share of the reward money?

[chiang mai]

The fact that police have been transferred for not doing their jobs is significant.

[Valentine]

The fact that police have been transferred for not doing their jobs is significant.

Yet we never hear later what happens to the countless 1,000s who have been transferred to inactive posts over the years. I wonder if there is an actual law stating they have to do this or did someone in the distant past dream up this so called punishment as a convenient way to deflect criticism of not doing anything.

[MaxLee]

Quick quick, take the blame to save face in the name of the RTP

[worgeordie]

Maybe it was difficult to find footage,because so many of the

cameras did not work and those that did ,the video was of very

poor quality.

regards Worgeordie

[Toknarok]

Transferred for 30 days only, what sort of a punishment is that? Might just as well have sent them on leave for a month.

[StefanBBK]

What actually does inactive post mean? Do they still get paid?

[MaxLee]

Transferred for 30 days only, what sort of a punishment is that?Might just as well have sent them on leave for a month.

What sort of punishment?... Just some inferior police pawns, used by the influential RTP as sacrificial lambs to take the blame in the name of saving RTP's face.... THAT sort of punishment,... makes sense?

[Oryx816]

Judging by the story they were already in inactive posts, why transfer them at all?

[MZurf]

What actually does inactive post mean? Do they still get paid?

Yes of course, but as we all know the painful part is not having income from tea money when in an inactive post.

[Muhendis]

Maybe it was difficult to find footage,because so many of the

cameras did not work and those that did ,the video was of very

poor quality.

regards Worgeordie

Actually, with so many cameras not working, that would make it easier. Not so much footage to go through. Poor quality? What do you expect from a camera that was probably a cheap copy of interest to the DSI.

[GAZZPA]

The fact that police have been transferred for not doing their jobs is significant.

Transferred for 30 days, is that really that significant? Sounds to me like its just window dressing for another poor investigation. Since when is it news for someone to be reprimanded unless it is to make a political statement.

They did not break the law, they just did a bad job but it is the big cheese who is really accountable. This is just another way of shirking accountability for the big boss and blaming lower ranking officers for the cock up.

[TheKnave]

Let's see: the formerly not-suspected suspect 'confesses' to being the guy in the yellow shirt, after how many days of police 'hospitality'? And of course it is corraborated by mysteriously appearing video that these three unfortunates 'failed' to find...

No frame here...

Reward well deserved, men, don't spend it all in one place...while the three poor Somchais take one for the team...

[joebrown]

Judging by the story they were already in inactive posts, why transfer them at all?

If the same principle had been applied after the Koh Tao murders there would have been an absence of police in Surat thani province for nearly a decade.!

[kennw]

Guess the three were more interested in taking care of their honey pot at NEP (Soi 4)

[JAG]

Transferred for 30 days only, what sort of a punishment is that? Might just as well have sent them on leave for a month.

Salary forms only ( a minor part ) of the income of a member of the RTP. Being in an inactive post means you lose your share of the" informal income stream". That is the punishment!

[yuv06]

Arai wa?

There is something fishy how can 3 police officers miss the yellow shirt when his pictures were plastered all over the news! I think it has to do with local politics as the police suspected from the beginning

[scorecard]

The fact that police have been transferred for not doing their jobs is significant.

Transferred for 30 days, is that really that significant? Sounds to me like its just window dressing for another poor investigation. Since when is it news for someone to be reprimanded unless it is to make a political statement.

They did not break the law, they just did a bad job but it is the big cheese who is really accountable. This is just another way of shirking accountability for the big boss and blaming lower ranking officers for the cock up.

Agree the police mentioned should be dismissed, nothing less, also their immediate and higher superiors should be punished or even dismissed.

[chiang mai]

The fact that police have been transferred for not doing their jobs is significant.

Yet we never hear later what happens to the countless 1,000s who have been transferred to inactive posts over the years. I wonder if there is an actual law stating they have to do this or did someone in the distant past dream up this so called punishment as a convenient way to deflect criticism of not doing anything.

The term, "transferred to an inactive post" is usually a euphemism for about to be got rid of very shortly.

[mike324]

its not rocket science to find video footage and coordinate with BMA to see if video cameras work or not

[empireboy]

The fact that police have been transferred for not doing their jobs is significant.

Yes, there is the public shame and embarrassment for them and their families...

[bbbbooboo]

lol....just a thought......transferred to an inactive role...... I would have thought their current role was already that...555

[Travel Dude]

Probably the metropolitan did not pay the officers at Lumpini to find the footage. That station is one 0f the most corrupt. I experienced it first hand... Headquarters and internal investigation should raid it.

[Mot Dang]

The fact that police have been transferred for not doing their jobs is significant.

Your right, but what kind of punishment is being transferred to inactive posts at the metropolitan police bureau for 30 days. Considering that the force was probably thinking that they were slackers anyway, being transferred to a cushy job, well for them, is not much of a punishment. Demote them, fine them, would be a more balanced punishment. Something must have been worrying the senior investigative officers for them to reorder a second or extended inspection of CCTV tapes. Did these guys have a history of being slackers ?

How many Police Lt. Cols are there in the police force any way ? They love their titles. Is it a case of too many chiefs and not enough Indians ?

[lostmebike]

The fact that police have been transferred for not doing their jobs is significant.

Yet we never hear later what happens to the countless 1,000s who have been transferred to inactive posts over the years. I wonder if there is an actual law stating they have to do this or did someone in the distant past dream up this so called punishment as a convenient way to deflect criticism of not doing anything.

The term, "transferred to an inactive post" is usually a euphemism for about to be got rid of very shortly.

According to who?

Where are these `facts` from?

Edited September 28, 2015 by lostmebike

[silent]

Arai wa?

There is something fishy how can 3 police officers miss the yellow shirt when his pictures were plastered all over the news! I think it has to do with local politics as the police suspected from the beginning

Please

If anything like many "Defectives" in other "forces", detecting involves filling out a notebook saying did this and that throughout the shift, and years of practice admitting to nothing, denying everything and acting confused when the unlikely happens, or something gets missed while off having fun, sleeping or both.

Most good "pinches" that might have got them to Lt likely happened from being in the right place at the right time from doing something that they shouldn't have been doing. Most go for years doing next to nothing but pretending, until some unexpected fluke happens and then they get their wrist slapped.

About 99% policing is strictly perceptions.