Police, red shirts prepare for second anniversary commemoration
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Police plan to deploy more than 1,000 police to the red shirts' commemoration of the second anniversary of the political violence at Ratchaprasong intersection on Saturday.
Pol Maj Gen Methee Kusonsang, deputy metropolitan commissioner, said bomb squad police will be deployed on Friday to screen the area. He added that police deployed to the ceremony would come from several police departments, including special forces, crime suppression as well from 191 emergency hotline respondents.
He said police had already talked with and sought cooperation from red shirt chief Thida Thavornset and Ratchaprasong traders’ chief, Chai Srivikorn, about the organisation of the event.
It is estimated there may be more than 50,000 red shirts joining the commemoration, which will start in the afternoon.
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