Somyot opposed to proposal to upgrade Royal Thai Police to ministry
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Police Commissioner General Pol Gen Somyot Pumpanmuang Monday expressed opposition to the proposal of the National Legislative Assembly to upgrade the Royal Thai Police to a new ministry.
The NLA has proposed that the police should be reformed by changing it to a ministry so that the administrative power would be decentralized to chiefs of departments instead of being concentrated to the national police chief.
But Somyot said the Royal Thai Police has a nature of its works like an armed force that the commander-in-chief would have to be able to issue commands quickly.
Somyot said it would be ineffective and too slow to respond to a crisis if the power is decentralised to department chiefs.
