RELEASED: 5 Dec 2023 at 19:14
National authorities primary Torsak Sukvimol has actually bought a fact-finding probe into a video portraying a Chinese traveler using the upper part of an authorities uniform while an individual looking like a real policeman waited to open a vehicle door for him.
Cops representative Pol Lt Gen Achayon Kraithong stated on Tuesday the questions will check out the origin of the video, the context in which it was tape-recorded and the people using the authorities uniform.
Asked if the foreign traveler would be clled in for an interview, he stated the findings were anticipated quickly, and when the realities were developed even more action would be thought about.
” Let’s wait on the fact-finding probe before we choose if there is a breach of the law or policies. The authorities chief has actually bought a query into the clip,” he stated.
Inquired about the prospective effect of the shared video on the image of Thai authorities, he advised travelers to prevent using main uniforms or asking for authorities to drive for them. They might be breaking the law, he stated.
He likewise stated authorities ought to work out utmost care when approached by travelers looking for to utilize their area, devices or uniforms for material production.
Pol Maj Gen Somporn Sajjapoj, deputy leader of the Cops Education Bureau, stated the preliminary examination discovered that the individual in the video was a policeman connected to Central Cops Tactical Training.
Throughout questioning, the officer confessed that he and his Chinese traveler buddy were individuals in the video. The officer stated his buddy took his authorities uniform inside his vehicle to use, he stated.
The video in concern was shared by an individual utilizing the name Luijeen on Facebook, who likewise published numerous still pictures of a Chinese traveler using the top of an authorities uniform with name badge, rank insignia and decors.
Luijeen, with 1.4 million fans, asked whether this behaviour was proper and pointed out the debate early this year including a Chinese traveler getting an unauthorised VVIP service from authorities.
4 cops were examined after the Chinese traveler published numerous videos on Chinese social networks platform in which she declared to have actually been accompanied rapidly through migration and used an authorities motorbike escort to her hotel in Pattaya.
