Thai Police Boss of Nakhon Phanom Arrested for Murder

The Commander of the Thai Royal Police at Nakhon Phanom City has been arrested in Chonburi, for murdering a suspect being questioned at the station, using a plastic bag to suffocate the victim, and threatening to murder his wife if she spoke out about the event, after murdering her husband for refusing to pay 2 million Baht corruption money. Once more the Thai Royal Police have shown that they are both murderous and corrupt from the top echelons, right down to the officers on the street, down at the bottom rung of the ladder. 

If you see this clearly, that when one cannot trust the Head of a Police station in Thailand, you cannot trust any Thai policeman at all thereafter.

   

 Thai Police Brutality, abuse of citizens rights, and corruption is common knowledge internationally these days, and is of course no secret, merely something that people are scared to talk about, for fear of persecution (rightly so, for the Thai Royal Police are immensely vengeful when exposed or accused of their own wrongdoings. 

 AP News state (and we are in agreement๗, that "Police have also come under harsh criticism recently for their use of force in trying to quell anti-government street protests in Bangkok. While some demonstrators employ violent tactics, police have been accused of overreacting and using dangerous methods of crowd control, including firing rubber bullets at close range."

   

 The investigation was only initiated because a Nationally famous lawyer, and public personality Decha Kittiwittayanan published the matter on his Facebook Page. He said he had been told by a junior policeman in Nakhon Sawan that police from his station, had arrested two suspects, a 24-year-old man and his girlfriend, with over 100,000 methamphetamine tablets. 

 The policemen first demanded 1 million baht ($30,560) from the suspects, which they agreed to pay for their release, according to the account. But the senior officer at the scene, police Col. Thitisan Uttanapol, demanded double that amount and ordered his subordinates to cover the male suspect’s head with a plastic bag and beat him until he agreed, said the junior policeman, whose name was not revealed. When the suspect died, Thitisan allegedly ordered his men to take the body to the hospital and tell the doctor the death was caused by a drug overdose. 

The junior policeman said the woman was released but told not to say anything about it, and that Thitisan paid the victim’s father to remain silent. The initial police response to the furor over the story posted by the lawyer was to transfer Thitisan to another post. On Tuesday, however, a video clip of the incident was shared on the Facebook page of another lawyer, Sittra Biabanggerd, who said he had received it from a police officer at the Nakhon Sawan station. 

It shows the male suspect in handcuffs, being led into a room, his head covered with a black plastic bag. He is then assaulted and thrown to the floor by officers who put more bags on his head. One of them appears to briefly kneel on him. The man, identified by Thai media as Jeerapong Thanapat, then goes limp. Police try in vain to revive him with a jug of water and CPR. 

Human Rights Watch charged that Thai police often act with total impunity, protecting each other. “This is no longer an individual issue. It’s a corrupt system that allows abusive acts,”. 

 Read a full account of this on AP News here; https://apnews.com/article/sports-police-arrests-c5e287db1adc739aff0f9504e91cc5df