Five police officers transferred after gambling den raid
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Five officers from Chok Chai Police Station in Bangkok were transferred to inactive posts yesterday for neglecting their duty after a gambling den was revealed to operate in areas they were responsible for.
The transfers came after police from the Economic Crime Division and Central Investigation Bureau raided a gambling den on Friday night on Lat Phrao Soi 71 in Lat Phrao, which is under the station’s jurisdiction.
The transferred policemen were Police Colonel Setthasak Yimcharoen (superintendent of Chok Chai Station); Pol Lt-Colonel Theppharat Sakulmeerit; Pol Lt-Colonel Khajornphong Jitphakphum; Pol Lt-Colonel Jirawat Yotkrahome; and Pol Major Banthoon Thepsuwan.
The transfers coincided with National Police Day celebrations yesterday.
Pol Colonel Sarot Soonsap, deputy chief of Metropolitan Police Division 4, was appointed acting superintendent of the station while a fact-finding panel was set up to look into the issue.
Police arrested 71 gamblers and seized Bt200,000 from the den. They also found records of football bets worth hundreds of thousands of baht. People living nearby said the den had been operating for months and that many people entered and exited the place every evening.
Jessada Chantararak
