FB users face arrest over street racing

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2015
FB users face arrest over street racing

THE Justice Ministry has told police to proceed with taking legal action against administrators of Facebook pages who provide youngsters with street race times and dates.

Wisit Wisitsora-at, chief of the ministry’s Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection, said preventing street racing was one of the government’s key policies.
Wisit said if police did not seriously implement the measure, he would propose that the justice minister ask Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to use Article 44 of the post-coup interim charter against indifferent officers.
Under the absolute power Article 44 affords Prayut as head of the National Council for Peace and Order, he can force state agencies to follow instructions regardless of their existing authority or the relevant laws.
Wisit said an investigation had found that social media was being used to organise street races, which