Nakhon Pathom police shifted

NATIONAL POLICE chief Pol General Somyot Poompanmuang said yesterday that 11 Nakhon Pathom police officers – including his own younger brother – had been transferred because crimes in the province had increased recently, especially on May 10 and May 19.
He pointed out that this area often encountered serious crimes, but local officers had not been able to arrest suspects. Instead, he said, arrests were made by outside administrative officials.
The transferred officials are to serve at the Royal Thai Police Office’s operations centre from yesterday onwards.
Somyot also assigned his deputy for security affairs, Pol General Chakthip Chaichinda, to urgently investigate crimes that have not yet been solved in Nakhon Pathom. If Chakthip’s team finds any officer involved in or deliberately turning a blind eye to crimes, that officer will face disciplinary and criminal action.

Transfer list
Those transferred are: Nakhon Pathom police superintendent Pol Maj-General Pote Boonmapak; Provincial Police Region 7 chief investigator Pol Maj-General Prapakorn Riewthong; Nakhon Pathom deputy police superintendent Pol Colonel Rattana Palchan; Muang Nakhon Pathom Police Station superintendent for investigation Pol Colonel Paithoon Pithaktham; Nakhon Pathom police chief investigator Pol Colonel Udom Piamsak; Muang Nakhon Pathom Police Station superintendent for crime suppression Pol Lt-Colonel Suthee Wannasut; Muang Nakhon Pathom Police Station superintendent for investigation Pol Lt-Colonel Puwadit Khongphet; Muang Nakhon Pathom Police Station crime suppression inspector Pol Lt-Colonel Kharupong Kaewsa-ard; Muang Nakhon Pathom Police Station investigator Pol Lt-Colonel Panuthat Leungsajjakul; Special Branch Subdivision 3 commander Pol Maj-General Thawipong Pongsoongnoen; and Crime Suppression Subdivision 5 commander Pol Colonel Pumin Poompanmuang.
In the early morning of May 10, a shooting incident took place in Muang district in which Piyasak Tiansamruay, 29, was killed on the spot and Special Branch Subdivision 3 officer Pol Lance-Corporal Sahachat Theungsuk was fatally injured, dying two days later.
The shootout also wounded four others. An arrest warrant was approved on May 15 for suspect Kasidet Jang-e-jang, 25.
On the night of May 19, butcher and alleged gambler Somsak Saengthong, 29, was shot dead near a gambling den in Muang district allegedly by suspect Nakhon Sae-lim, 33 – who surrendered to police the following day, but insists he is innocent.
The shooting, which is believed to have stemmed from another gambler’s belief that Somsak was cheating at the table, took place in front of an unnamed police officer who is allegedly also a gambler.