Hundreds of police to guard VIPs
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Hundreds of police officers are providing security to the important figures participating in the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok, which will run from today till Friday.
“We will deploy 200 police officers for the 31 motorcades of the top-level participants each day,” Deputy Metropolitan Police Commissioner Maj-General Anan Srihirun said yesterday.
Anan is security chief for the international forum, which will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel, though some participants are staying at other hotels.
Among the VIPs are the leaders of Bahrain, Vietnam and Indonesia, ministers of 18 other countries, and Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Police spokesman Maj General Piya Utayo said the Special Branch Division and the Metropolitan Police Bureau would be mainly responsible for security details.
Deputy Metropolitan Police commissioner Maj-General Worasak Nopsittiporn, who oversees traffic affairs, said main, secondary and emergency routes had already been planned.
Anan said to date there had been no intelligence reports on security threats against the forum or its participants.
“It’s just that some demonstrators may turn up to submit open letters or demands,” he said.
