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Cops at female cop’s door just ‘a misunderstanding’

Cops at female cop’s door just ‘a misunderstanding’

A female police officer’s alarming social-media post about plainclothes police attempting to search her apartment stemmed from a misunderstanding, the superintendent of Bangkok’s Din Daeng Police Station said on Tuesday.

Police Lance Corporal Nuntinee Mujchapan of the Central Investigation Bureau had posted a warning to the public on Facebook after several men claiming to be plainclothes offers had come to her door at 3am on Tuesday wanting to search her room. She refused to open the door and they left. 
Nuntinee also posted a CCTV recording of the incident and said she believed they were impostors with criminal intent. 
She asked Wang Thong Lang police to check whether a police operation was being conducted in her area at the time.
The matter was clarified when Din Daeng superintendent Pol Colonel Kiatnarong Chalermsuk and Nuntinee called a press conference on Tuesday night, citing a misunderstanding. 
Kiatnarong said narcotics suppression officers from his precinct had been tipped off on Monday that a resident of Nuntinee’s condominium possessed a large amount of ketamine (ecstasy). They’d gone to the wrong door, alarming Nuntinee, he said. 
They subsequently learned that their informant had identified the wrong apartment and believed the drug suspect had by then fled. 
Kiatnarong said the officers had planned to lure the suspect out of his room and make a purchase arrangement, then arrest him when the drugs were delivered. 
The superintendent advised citizens who find themselves in the same situation as Nuntinee to do as she did – refuse to open their door and call the police hotline at 191.
Nuntinee said she was relieved to learn it was a misunderstanding and that it actually was police at her door rather than criminals.

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