Police chief not worried about compensation ruling
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THE NATIONAL police chief is not concerned about a ruling handed down by a Chiang Mai court on Wednesday that it pay Bt96.9 million in compensation to PCC Development and Construction Co for cancelling its contract to build police stations nationwide.
Pol General Jakthip Chaijinda said he has yet to receive a report about the latest ruling and he would have to consider the details.
“I think this is not worrying because there is an agency to handle this matter,” he said.
The Chiang Mai Administrative Court on Wednesday ordered the Royal Thai Police to pay the firm Bt96,970,433 in 60 days after it ruled that the firm completed some part of the Bt5.84-billion project to construct 396 replacement stations in 2011-2012.
The court also ordered the police to return to the firm a Bt292.4-million performance bond at Government Savings Bank’s Chang Pheuk Gate branch.
The police cancelled the project contract with PCC in April 2013, after the firm failed to complete it within the third extended deadline in March 2013.
PCC then filed a lawsuit against the police to demand Bt1 billion in compensation, claiming that the contract’s cancellation was unlawful and that it was police that breached the terms by failing to hand over land plots, approve construction plans and pay construction costs in a timely fashion.
