reader Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 From Bangkok Post Tourist Police Bureau deputy commander Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakphan, left, and senior officers question the 25-year-old Canadian who accuses a Lumpini traffic policeman and his accomplice of trying to frame him with drugs and extort him.(Photo taken from @1155TPB (Tourist Police Bureau's Facebook page) A traffic policeman based at Bangkok’s Lumpini station has been dismissed from the force and faces "drastic action" for allegedly trying to extort a Canadian national by placing drugs in his possession. Pol Maj Gen Mongkhol Warunno, chief of the Metropolitan Police Division 5, signed the order dismissing Pol Snr Sgt Maj Cherdchai Phuchuaytuam on Monday. Pol Snr Sgt Maj Cherchai, 46, of Lumpini police station, and an alleged accomplice, Chakrit Teeluay, 37, were arrested at a room on the sixth floor of The Blue Apartment on Soi Sribampen in Thung Mahamek area, Sathon district, on Monday for extortion. The arrests were made after a 25-year-old Canadian man, a foreign language instructor, filed a complaint with Thung Mahamek police and tourist police on Sunday. He alleged the two suspects tried to wrongfully detain him and place illegal drugs on him at an apartment room around 10.30am on Sunday. Instead, he managed to flee. Pol Maj Gen Surachet said the accused officer would face "drastic action". According to the Tourist Police Bureau website, the Canadian had been lured to the room by a man on Facebook to have sex. When the Canadian arrived and saw his Facebook "friend" and a companion, he quickly turned to leave. The man, who was later identified as Pol Snr Sgt Maj Cherdchai, and his companion, identified as Mr Chakkrit, had tried to detain him. The Canadian managed to get away and later that day filed a complaint with Thung Mahamek police. https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1404490/cop-sacked-accused-of-framing-extorting-canadian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vessey Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Unusual for the police to take the word of a tourist against the word of one of their own officers - unless perhaps they already had suspicions about the officer in question? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traveller123 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Unusual for the police to take the word of a tourist against the word of one of their own officers - unless perhaps they already had suspicions about the officer in question? See the last paragraph of the Bangkok Post article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Promsak Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 BIB use sex to lure Canadian Well that is click bait if ever I saw it. BIB usually refers to boyS in brown. This headline suggests that it is a general police policy. Actually, it it one police officer ACCUSED of trying to scam a tourist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reader Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Who you kidding, Prom? If the headline had read "Cop uses sex to lure Canadian" you still would have read it. "Sex" was the word that got your attention; it gets us all. Read Grindr, Hornet, Romeo, Blued? It's all clickbait, or more accurately, dickbait, but you still gobble it up. You claim that BIB usually refers to boyS in brown. Well this time it didn't. Hope it didn't ruin your day. But it's nice to know you're on acronym patrol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
