SUVARNABHUMI
SUTHIWIT CHAYUTWORAKAN & AMORNRAT MAHITTHIROOK
SAMUT PRAKAN : Airports of Thailand will step up security at Suvarnabhumi airport by installing more surveillance cameras and increasing the frequency of patrols by security guards and police.
The decision came after a bold hold-up at a bank at the airport on Sunday morning.
Airport director Serirat Prasutanont said the hold up at the Bangkok bank branch would not dent passengers' confidence in the airport's security because the crime was not committed close to the passenger terminal.
Police patrols would be increased in vulnerable areas of the airport.
On Sunday morning, two armed robbers clad in black jackets held up the bank and made off with 3.3 million baht in cash. The robbery lasted 40 minutes.
Mr Serirat said the agency generally deploys fewer security guards on weekends.
Chaturongkhapol Sodmanee, AoT deputy director, believes the robbery was an inside job.
He said the AoT needed financial assistance for purchasing more surveillance cameras as the existing 163 inside the passenger terminal were not enough.
''The bank is located on the left side of a bus parking lot in Zone G, which is quite far out and there are no surveillance cameras there,'' Mr Chaturongkhapol said.
Their security depended on the rounds made by the guards and police patrols to the area.
He said there were also too many advertising stickers on the glass doors of the bank, blocking the view of officers and preventing them from knowing what was happening inside the bank. Some of the stickers would have to go.
Assistant national police chief Pol Lt-Gen Chongrak Chuthanon said investigators have made good progress in the case.
He refused to reveal any details.
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