PHUKET: Police have identified nine men who incited the riot on Phuket at the weekend, Commander Major General Pachara Boonyasit told 200 officers today.
''We aim to have them and other wrongdoers in custody before the end of the month,'' he said.
Speaking at a ceremony to mark Police Day, the commander commended the restraint of the Thalang Police Station superintendent as his officers confronted ''an insane mob'' on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
''Petrol bombs were being thrown to set cars burning and concrete blocks were being hurled through windows,'' the commander said.
''The cars and the windows can be fixed. Human lives cannot be replaced.
''The superintendent at Thalang Police Station made the right decision not to take on this insane mob. These policemen deserve our respect and admiration.''
The commander said that he stayed in the building on the third floor and was able to communicate via loudhailer with Superintendent Colonel Chanuchan Cholsuwat, who was on the ground floor, trying to defend the building and protect his men.
It was Commander Pachara who called in Army troops. Their arrival at 3.30am, with a total of about 500 soldiers, Navy personnel and police at the scene, led to the end of the riot.
Trapped in the building with the Phuket police commander were Vice Governor Chokdee Amornwat, Thalang chief officer VeeraKerdsirimangkon, and five deputy superintendents, all colonels: Peerayut Karajedee, Pinit Sirichai, Sakchai Limcharoen, Weerawat Chanwichit and Saman Chainarong.
Seventeen police were later treated for wounds.
''Forensic evidence already establishes that petrol bombs were thrown,'' the commander said. At least one shot was fired, he believed.
Officers were able to extinguish fires that broke out in the building.
Commander Pachara said he went to the police station in daylight and his car was beaten and damaged by protesters as it was driven back to Police HQ in Phuket City.
''It is plain to us that alcohol and drugs were a big part of what happened later that night,'' he said.
Major General Pachara said he believed that many of the people who were the most violent during the protest were members of the same drugs network, either as sellers or takers, as the two young men whose deaths in a crash with a pursuit car triggered the riot.
He said their deaths were to be regretted.
Phuket's governor and other VIPs gathered at Phuket Police HQ for today's ceremony.
''We aim to have them and other wrongdoers in custody before the end of the month,'' he said.
Speaking at a ceremony to mark Police Day, the commander commended the restraint of the Thalang Police Station superintendent as his officers confronted ''an insane mob'' on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
''Petrol bombs were being thrown to set cars burning and concrete blocks were being hurled through windows,'' the commander said.
''The cars and the windows can be fixed. Human lives cannot be replaced.
''The superintendent at Thalang Police Station made the right decision not to take on this insane mob. These policemen deserve our respect and admiration.''
The commander said that he stayed in the building on the third floor and was able to communicate via loudhailer with Superintendent Colonel Chanuchan Cholsuwat, who was on the ground floor, trying to defend the building and protect his men.
It was Commander Pachara who called in Army troops. Their arrival at 3.30am, with a total of about 500 soldiers, Navy personnel and police at the scene, led to the end of the riot.
Trapped in the building with the Phuket police commander were Vice Governor Chokdee Amornwat, Thalang chief officer VeeraKerdsirimangkon, and five deputy superintendents, all colonels: Peerayut Karajedee, Pinit Sirichai, Sakchai Limcharoen, Weerawat Chanwichit and Saman Chainarong.
Seventeen police were later treated for wounds.
''Forensic evidence already establishes that petrol bombs were thrown,'' the commander said. At least one shot was fired, he believed.
Officers were able to extinguish fires that broke out in the building.
Commander Pachara said he went to the police station in daylight and his car was beaten and damaged by protesters as it was driven back to Police HQ in Phuket City.
''It is plain to us that alcohol and drugs were a big part of what happened later that night,'' he said.
Major General Pachara said he believed that many of the people who were the most violent during the protest were members of the same drugs network, either as sellers or takers, as the two young men whose deaths in a crash with a pursuit car triggered the riot.
He said their deaths were to be regretted.
Phuket's governor and other VIPs gathered at Phuket Police HQ for today's ceremony.
You don't see women acting like this, time to cull male embryos.
Posted by Radi Call on October 13, 2015 22:34