Video: Police chase Bangkok style - but was it worth it?

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Video: Police chase Bangkok style - but was it worth it?

 

Image: Daily News

 

BANGKOK:-- A video is doing the rounds of Thai social media that shows a police chase and dramatic arrest in northern Bangkok.
 

 

But the hour long chase and shooting out of the tires yielded just one Yaba tablet.

A short part of the chase - that actually lasted more than sixty minutes - was posted on Facebook. It showed police on motorbikes chasing a man in a Chevrolet pick-up through many streets in Bangkok. Other motorists are warned to keep their distance as the hunt intensifies.

The chase eventually comes to a conclusion on Praditmanutham Road outside SC Park when the man is grappled from his cab and cuffed.

All four of his tires were shot out as he eventually was obliged to stop. He had earlier raced away from a police checkpoint on Kamhaeng Phet Road.

But some of the thousands who viewed the chase online commented on what was found after the arrest was made. The man had just ONE Yaba tablet and 0.4 of a gram of methamphetamine.

Sitthiphon Phumpuang, 32, said he was out collecting his girlfriend from a market and decided to take some drugs. When he encountered the police checkpoint he panicked and revved off that led to the chase though the northern suburbs of the city.

One policeman was hurt when he came off his motorbike after being sideswiped. 

The footage was viewed from the @Anyawaut Phoamphai Facebook page and was shared across social media.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[A1Str8]

Those are true crime fighters. 

[Happy Grumpy]

Maybe the other 100,000 disappeared. 

[puukao]

My tax dollars hard at work..

 

oh wait. 

[jr101bkk]

n00b alert - i cant log into my old account because google hates me.

 

I feel sorry for the thai 5-0, theyve only ever treated me with respect and  / or left me alone. 9 years in bkk

[ezzra]

 

Similar car chases has been abounded by law enforcements agencies in some

countries for fear that it might chase more damage and harm to the public

that what's the perpetrators life's worth, but I guess that here if a member of the

public get run over or shot in the processes of the apprehension that it's all

in a days work....

[dinsdale]

Looks like they're doing their job. Policing.

[tagalong]

You negative commentators are missing the point badly...  He drove away from a police check point...O.K.

 

One cannot know why he ran so, finding 1 ya-baa is irrelevant.

 

What if they found war weapons?   Would that justify the police chase?  The police were doing their job and people condemn them for it...

 

Give the police an applause for doing the right thing...

 

 

[whatproblem]

Well less drugged phooked up idiot on the road .good job rtp ,I hope this is a new start to a new year by catching these scum bags .got to start sometime 

[recom273]

54 minutes ago, tagalong said:

You negative commentators are missing the point badly...  He drove away from a police check point...O.K.

 

One cannot know why he ran so, finding 1 ya-baa is irrelevant.

 

What if they found war weapons?   Would that justify the police chase?  The police were doing their job and people condemn them for it...

 

Give the police an applause for doing the right thing...

 

 

 

Yes a big round of applause ..

 

Would you be clapping if a young kid was run over or a student caught with a stray bullet?

 

Theres more ways to skin a cat, they have the guys registration on cameras, they could have just sat outside his house.

 

Sorry, modern policing isn't about charging around the streets firing guns at tyres, they have been watching too many soap operas. Its a bit late to start praising their efforts when its obvious their methods don't work.

Edited January 7, 2017 by recom273

[14Stevie]

1 hour ago, recom273 said:

 

Yes a big round of applause ..

 

Would you be clapping if a young kid was run over or a student caught with a stray bullet?

 

Theres more ways to skin a cat, they have the guys registration on cameras, they could have just sat outside his house.

 

Sorry, modern policing isn't about charging around the streets firing guns at tyres, they have been watching too many soap operas. Its a bit late to start praising their efforts when its obvious their methods don't work.

I am not disagreeing with you when I say that I come from a country where police show understandable restraint in car chases for the safety of others as well as the probable fear of being sued in the event of an innocent person being hurt/killed as a consequence of the type of hypotheticals stated above.

However, if I can introduce another hypothetical in that what if the driver was of a terrorist persuasion carrying explosives or guns to be used to kill and maim many tens or hundreds of people, and the detection methods stated (cameras etc.) show that the police could have apprehended the vehicle thereby saving many lives.

What criticism would the police have faced had they let the car go and carnage ensued?

The facts are that the driver raced away from a police checkpoint thereby raising the police suspicion he had something illegal to hide.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and one Yaba tablet isn't a great haul (maybe the rest of his stash were ditched during the chase - again, hypothetical, I know) but in this age of terrorism and their use of bombs and firearms surely the police must be able to act accordingly in the event of any form of suspicious behaviour.

On this occasion the police methods did work in that they apprehended a criminal, no innocent members of the public were killed or injured with the only downside being a policeman was injured during the course of his duty.

[gdgbb]

1 hour ago, recom273 said:

 

Yes a big round of applause ..

 

Would you be clapping if a young kid was run over or a student caught with a stray bullet?

 

Theres more ways to skin a cat, they have the guys registration on cameras, they could have just sat outside his house.

 

Sorry, modern policing isn't about charging around the streets firing guns at tyres, they have been watching too many soap operas. Its a bit late to start praising their efforts when its obvious their methods don't work.

But no one was run over or shot with a stray bullet, were they?

 

"Its a bit late to start praising their efforts when its obvious their methods don't work."

Nonsense, the chase concluded successfully.

[gdgbb]

What a shame that the police are not provided with suitable official vehicles to do the job that they're expected to do or enough in their budgets for the individual stations to buy proper vehicles.

[toofarnorth]

42 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

What a shame that the police are not provided with suitable official vehicles to do the job that they're expected to do or enough in their budgets for the individual stations to buy proper vehicles.

Yep two on a scooter blowing their 'ooter , Boys on bikes but surely this is the best and only way to chase felons in BKK ?

[nakhonandy]

Car chases are a danger to the public. 

 

Keep track of the vehicle by all means by just following on bikes and updating other officers. No car is faster than a radio.

 

Operation ended safely here but that is often not the case.

 

As for shooting out the tyres, even more dangerous.

Edited January 7, 2017 by nakhonandy
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[snowflake]

Here we go, complain about the police again... did they know he had only one yaabaa tablet? He ran away from a legit stop. From what I saw it was a very successful chase, throw the book at the driver as one copper got injured...

 

''these cops here are clearly doing their job... give them a bonus...

 

Sometimes they need to get rough, if I was in Bangkok, I would buy them a round... 

[recom273]

2 hours ago, gdgbb said:

But no one was run over or shot with a stray bullet, were they?

 

"Its a bit late to start praising their efforts when its obvious their methods don't work."

Nonsense, the chase concluded successfully.

 

Not on this occasion .. But four months back some student was hit during a drugs raid, she was sitting in a car .. Outside the building - minding her own business.

 

 

Edited January 7, 2017 by recom273

[trogers]

Raises the question - how many of the hundreds of thousand vehicles on the city roads are driven by drug addicts?

[Rhys]

Well, they did their job one unsafe driver off the road, now onto the pile...