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319 foreigners arrested in latest 'outlaws' raids
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 05/10/2018
» A total of 319 foreigners were arrested for immigration offences in the latest "outlaw tourists" raids, which targeted 337 locations across the country early on Friday morning.
13-year-old lured into sex trade
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 04/10/2018
» A young female suspect has been nabbed by police after she allegedly procured a 13-year-old girl to have sex with an elderly Japanese man in Pattaya.
'Big Joke' tipped to be immigration chief
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 28/09/2018
» Deputy tourist police chief Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn is tipped to become the new Immigration Bureau (IB) commissioner in the upcoming annual police reshuffle.
Traffickers jailed over child flower sellers
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 26/09/2018
» The Mae Sot Provincial Court has sentenced two migrants in a human trafficking case to 12 years in jail and ordered them to pay almost 1.3 million baht in compensation to the victims, according to the Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF).
Three senior police officers sacked in Ponzi network case
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 18/09/2018
» Three senior police officers at Provincial Police Region 4 in Khon Kaen have been dismissed from the civil service and 15 others transferred to inactive posts at Royal Thai Police headquarters in connection with a high-profile investigation into a Ponzi network.
Police stand their ground on female ban
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 10/09/2018
» Terminating the recruitment of female cadets is a step backward for gender equality, say critics, but the police are standing their ground on the policy and insist that despite the move, the role of women in the police force will not be phased out.
Ban threat for teen in rape case
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 03/09/2018
» Police have threatened to blacklist a 19-year-old British girl and deny her entry to Thailand indefinitely if she fails to counter investigators' findings that her rape claim on Koh Tao is groundless.
Police: no evidence of rape
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 31/08/2018
» A police team from Bangkok say they have found no evidence or witnesses indicating that a rape or drugging took place on Koh Tao as claimed by a British woman.
US father tosses dead baby in river and flees to Thailand
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 09/08/2018
» A Bronx man got on a plane to Thailand after carrying his dead 7-month-old baby around New York City in a backpack and throwing the boy's body into the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge and other tourist hotspots, police said on Wednesday.
Knife-wielding kidnapper caught trying to flee in canal
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 08/08/2018
» A man believed to be high on drugs was hauled from a muddy canal in Pathum Thani and arrested on Tuesday night after earlier kidnapping a boy and threatening to stab him and a motorcycle taxi driver.