Phuket Police ‘concerned’ after Pattani bomb attack

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

A Royal Thai Army soldier checks a Thai man’s identification papers as he arrives onto Phuket on a nighttime bus. Photo: The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: -- The Commander of the Phuket Provincial Police has expressed his concern following the bomb attacks at a Big C Supercentre in Pattani on Tuesday (May 9), but maintains that security in Phuket remains vigilant.

 

“I am very concerned about the security situation in Phuket, especially after the bomb attacks in Pattani,” Maj Gen Teeraphol Thipjaroen, Phuket’s leading police commander, told The Phuket News today (May 11).

 

“We are maintaining our strong coordination in working with other security officials, such as at Phuket International Airport, with the Royal Thai Army and Royal Thai Navy’s Third Naval Area Command (based in Phuket), as well as administration officials,” he said.

 

Gen Teeraphol pointed out that heightened security checks on vehicles and passengers coming onto the island are causing traffic delays at the Phuket Checkpoint at Tha Chatchai, at the northern tip of the island.

 

“This is because officials are conducting more thorough checks,” he said.

 

Gen Teeraphol noted that police in Phuket had good cooperative relations with Muslim leaders on the island.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-police-concerned-after-pattani-bomb-attack-62122.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2017-05-11

... well I'll be, goolly Gomer, pro-activeness?

He should be. They already send a warning in December 2013 about their ability to get a truck bomb into the town. They just decided not to explode that one but left it next to the police station as a warning.

On 5/11/2017 at 1:38 PM, webfact said:

“We are maintaining our strong coordination in working with other security officials, such as at Phuket International Airport, with the Royal Thai Army and Royal Thai Navy’s Third Naval Area Command (based in Phuket), as well as administration officials,”

Well, not maybe all security officials - "A police intelligence unit warned other agencies of a possible car bomb attack about an hour before a double explosion at the Big C shopping mall in Pattani"