Police urged to be cautious at crime scenes in deep South
Pattani Governor Pramuk Lamun yesterday said procedures for officers approaching a crime scene would be overhauled as many incident sites, to which police officers were called, turned out to be ambushes or traps set by insurgents bent on inflicting furthe
Following violence in Pattani’s Yaring, Nong, Chik, Yarang and Muang districts between 8pm and 3am on Friday, Pramuk said officers must exercise more caution when approaching crime scenes as it was apparent some incidents were indeed the scenes of ambushes or traps.
He added that the province was also compiling information about some 20 to 30 locations where violence occurred regularly, so that police could build up a picture of the types of attacks taking place.
Pattani police chief, Police Maj-General Ekaphob Prasitwattanachai, said the recent violence had occurred in six locations of Muang district and included damage to a CCTV camera and a telephone booth, which was set on fire in front of Sat Wittaya School in Tambon Tanyong Luloh. Other incidents included setting fire to Advanced Info Service (AIS) mobile-phone cables on 42 (Pattani-Narathiwat) and 410 (Pattani-Yala) roads.
In Yaring district, suspected insurgents set fire to car tyres in Ban Tanyong Dalo Moo 5 and stole three CCTV cameras from an intersection in Tambon Yamu. In Nong Chik, car tyres were set alight on a road near Chulabhon, while police were looking into the cause of a fire at a Ban Kolor Tanyong village headman’s house.
In Yarang district, tyres were burnt in three locations in Tambon Moh Mawee and Tambon Yarang.
