The appointment of Thailand’s new police chief, Pol General Torsak Sukvimol, has received royal endorsement. A royal command removing Torsak from the post of deputy police commissioner-general and appointing him as the new police commissioner-general was published in the Royal Gazette on Saturday.

THE new police chief should be named on Friday, national police chief Pol General Somyot Poompunmuang said yesterday, adding that the final decision lay in the hands of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.