Police homewatch project, New Year
Holiday makers could travel carefree, as police yesterday launched a project to provide security for their homes.
Deputy police chief Pol Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen said the “Fak Ban Wai Kub Tam Ruad” (trans. leaving houses’ to police care) project would start from December 25, 2011 to January 3, 2012 to supervise houses whose owners left them to police’s while travelling to other provinces. People wishing to join could call police and told them information- date of departing and arriving. The police would keep the owners’ telephone numbers and the information as a secret. They would report situation of the houses to the owners every day and give the owners suggestion of valuable possessions and infrastructure in the houses.
Regarding the security during the New Year holidays, Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Pol Lt Gen Winai Thongsong said that city police got help from 200 border patrolling polices, 100 policemen from the Central Investigation Bureau, and 200 provost guards to patrol key communities and public transport stations, while checkpoints would be set up from 8pm to 4am daily throughout the period.
