Police officers, transferred after gambling raids, reinstated
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THE officers from three police stations given snap transfers following military raids on illicit casinos have been abruptly reinstated after an internal investigation found that they were not at fault.
Military officials had conducted frequent raids on gambling dens located in their precincts.
The men from the Lat Phrao, Bang Khen and Khok Khram police stations were not to blame, Pol Lt General Sriwara Ransibrahmanakul, head of Metropolitan Police, said yesterday.
Gambling dens and gambling activities were entirely different matters, he said without elaborating.
Police “may have not monitored the gambling activities very thoroughly” and were not making an excuse, he said, adding that he would follow the National Council for Peace and Order policy against vice and gambling.
Pol Maj-General Itthiphol Phiriyaphinyo, deputy Metropolitan Police chief, said the searches were actually joint operations by local police and troops.
Police had notified the soldiers before, so the police at those stations were neither responsible for the underground gaming activities nor negligent in their duty to suppress vice and gambling, he added.
