Phuket police investigate series of holiday break-ins

Phuket Gazette 

 

     

The car window was smashed and the victim’s briefcase stolen from inside the vehicle. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

PHUKET: -- Police are investigating a car break-in at Saphan Hin Park on Tuesday night, reported to be one of at least 15 such cases that occurred throughout Phuket during the holiday period.

Phuket City Police officers received a report that someone had broken into a white Honda City by smashing the driver’s side window. 

“The car owner, named Supawaan Whamaak, 28, told us that she was visiting Saphan Hin Park with some of her friends and had parked her car on the side of the road,” said Lt Chartri Wecthrangsri of Phuket City Police.

 

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Leave your home over holiday period and rich pickings for the Phuket criminals. They are even known to remove the bars from windows

1 hour ago, wreckingcountry said:

Leave your home over holiday period and rich pickings for the Phuket criminals. They are even known to remove the bars from windows

 

Appreciate you may be new to Thailand but you will find bars on car windows are not common here   

When I park up I usually leave my Rolex and wallet on my dash.