Cop chief linked to drug trade
published : 21 Oct 2022 at 09:12
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
The Narathiwat provincial police chief has been transferred to an inactive post with the Royal Thai Police for alleged connections to drug networks in the deep South and Malaysia.
The chairman of the Crime Victims Assistance Club filed a complaint with the Royal Thai Police Anti-Corruption Division (ACD) against Pol Maj Gen Waesamae Salae, the provincial police chief, for malfeasance on Oct 5.
Provincial Police Region 9 launched a fact-finding probe into the matter.
The chairman yesterday showed police evidence indicating Pol Maj Gen Waesamae's involvement with drug networks.
Some of the evidence purportedly showed how members of gangs involved in trafficking drugs and weapons of war were under Pol Maj Gen Waesamae's command.
When they were arrested, the accused officer reportedly volunteered to supervise their cases in an attempt to help them escape justice.
The chairman also claimed to have an audio recording of a conversation involving a drug dealer who was captured in possession of 33 firearms and a former Malaysian police officer who sold crystal meth and had abducted a Malaysian businessman in Laos.
He also claimed to have proof of irregularities implicating Pol Maj Gen Waesamae in another case involving a suspect who fatally shot a police officer in the border town of Sungai Kolok in Narathiwat.
The suspect's name was later removed from the case file despite evidence showing the man was guilty, he said.
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Vocabulary
- abduct: to take somebody away illegally, especially using force - ลักพาตัว
- command (verb): to be in charge of a group of people in the army, navy, etc - มีอำนาจบังคับบัญชา
- complaint: when someone says that something is wrong or not satisfactory - การร้องเรียน
- escape (verb): to get away from a place; to leave a place where you are in danger - หนี
- evidence: facts, signs or objects that make you believe that something is true - หลักฐาน,ข้อแสดง
- inactive post: a job or position with no real responsibilities or duties -
- irregularity: a situation in which the rules, laws, or usual ways of doing things have not been followed - การปฏิบัติที่ไม่เป็นไปตามระเบียบปกติ
- justice: a fair result or punishment from a court of law - ความยุติธรรม
- malfeasance: illegal actions, especially by a person in authority - การใช้อำนาจไปในทางที่ผิด
- network: a large system of connected parts, organisations, people, etc. - เครือข่าย
- probe: an investigation - การสอบสวน
- purportedly: said by some people to be real or true, but not proved to be real or true - ซึ่งอ้างว่า
- supervise: to be in charge of an activity and to check that everything is being done correctly - ดูแล ควบคุม
- trafficking: dealing in illegal goods, like drugs, weapons or in illegally moving humans or animals from one place to another - การค้าสิ่งที่ผิดกฎหมาย
- victims : people who are killed injured or harmed in some way from an accident, natural disaster, crime, etc. - เหยื่อผู้เคราะห์ร้าย
