Police recruit claims physical, mental abuse

These undated pictures were posted by Pol L/Cpl Chontaros Sukdayotin, 25, on her Facebook page on Sunday night, together with a suicidal-sounding complaint about police training.
These undated pictures were posted by Pol L/Cpl Chontaros Sukdayotin, 25, on her Facebook page on Sunday night, together with a suicidal-sounding complaint about police training.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau is investigating a complaint from a newly recruited policewoman that she was repeatedly abused physically and mentally during her first year of training.

A spokesman said that the police lance corporal was suffering from depression and receiving treatment and medication. The spokesman said an investigation would be done.

The spokesman was responding to a Facebook post by Pol L/Cpl Chontaros Sukdayotin, 25, on Sunday night that said she had been abused during her first year after joining the police force.

According to the post – which sounded suicidal – she wrote that a colleague accidentally kicked her head in a camp.

After her treatment and return to her camp – Naresuan in Phetchaburi province – she was repeatedly punished physically and mentally by her trainers.

She was verbally and physically assaulted, she wrote. Her lower legs were beaten with ropes and she was ordered to do headstands. She was also forced to take night shifts and was unable to sleep.

"I have done my best as a police officer. But no matter how much I try, I am still a patient. Thanks mostly to my police career, I have had depression. Today I have had enough. I wish such training would stop with my case. We should be trained to be tough, not to become sick," Pol L/Cpl Chontaros wrote.

She also wrote that she would hand all her assets to her mother and donate her body for medical study, before concluding her post with "farewell".

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Vocabulary

  • abuse (noun): cruel, violent or unfair treatment, especially of someone who does not have the power to prevent it - การข่มเหง, การปฏิบัติไม่ดีต่อ
  • abuse: to use or treat someone or something wrongly or badly, especially in a way that is to your own advantage - ใช้ในทางที่ผิด
  • assaulted: attacked by someone violently - ถูกทำร้ายร่างกาย
  • asset: a thing of value - สิ่งที่มีคุณค่า
  • corporal: a non-commissioned officer of low rank in the army - นายสิบโท
  • depression: a medical condition in which a person is so unhappy that they cannot live a normal life - ความสะเทือนใจ, ความเศร้าสลด, ความหดหู่
  • farewell: saying goodbye to someone when you do not expect to see them again for a long time - การกล่าวลา, การลาจาก
  • headstand: a position in which a person has their head on the ground and their feet straight up in the air - การทรงตัวในแนวตั้งที่ใช้ศีรษะและมือทั้งสองข้างดันพื้นเพื่อรับน้ำหนักตัวแทนขา
  • investigation: the process of trying to find out all the details or facts about something in order to discover who or what caused it or how it happened - การสอบสวน, การตรวจสอบหาข้อเท็จจริง
  • patient: someone who is receiving medical treatment - คนป่วย, คนไข้
  • physically: in a way that is connected with a person's body rather than their mind - ด้านร่างกาย, เกี่ยวกับร่างกาย
  • punish: to make somebody suffer because they have broken the law or done something wrong - ทำโทษ
  • recruit: a new member of the armed forces - ทหารใหม่
  • rope (noun): very strong thick string made by twisting thinner strings, wires, etc. together - เชือก
  • suicidal: people who are suicidal feel that they want to kill themselves -
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