An image from a video posted online shows an officer stomping on the head of one of three teenagers who were handcuffed in Nakhon Pathom. (Captured from video posted by Yak Dang Diew Jadhai Return Part 2 Facebook)
The behavior of two police officers in Nakhon Pathom is under investigation after a video emerged on social media showing one of them kicking two handcuffed teenagers, stomping their shoe on their heads and beating them with a belt.
Police authorities in the province bordering Bangkok ordered the transfer of the officers to inactive posts pending the outcome of an investigation. The incident took place on April 30, but only came to light when the video surfaced on social media on Friday.
Pol Major General Chomchawin Prathananon, chief of the Nakhon Pathom Police Department, and Sam Phran District Police Chief Colonel Songwut Charoenwithayadet expressed regret over the incident on Saturday.
The video of the incident was posted on the popular Facebook page Yak Dang Chat Diew Jadhai Return Part 3. The incident took place on April 30 in front of the Pruksa Ville 44 housing estate on Boromratchonnanee Road in Sam Phran.
Source: Bangkok Post
watched the movie several times. Completely unnecessary violence. This “agent” should be fired immediately. It is a sadistic figure and a lust for power.
This is of course not justified in the current Dutch zeitgeist, but there is often a different story behind this.
Community police officers know derailed teenagers all too well and want to save them from the abyss and then blows can help, especially if those figures carry a gun with them. In the past it also worked in NL that you received blows from the police officer to become wiser. Times change and with the soft approach there is nothing else to do but immediately detain the brats and then the family can pay 20.000 baht as a deposit and then it will go to criminal proceedings.
To each his own, but unfortunately we do see some kind of stories, but not the story of a brat who never wanted to listen. Or at least, then it is about bad conditions in the tank for which a conscious choice has been made.
I assume that this kind of behavior is also not proclaimed in Thai police training and that discipline and the correct use of force should be an important factor for the person concerned. The fact that emotions ran high in this incident is certainly visible in view of this behavior in the violence used. The question remains what is in the Thai use of force instructions. In situations of force majeure, the degree of violence is understandable and then the term, every force and every urge that one cannot or need not resist, is justifiable. After all, man is not infallible. Beholding this behavior in this way is highly disapproving and does not seem to indicate force majeure, but rather deliberate action. Rightly so that a transfer is taking place to an inactive post and further investigation is being carried out, whereby I will certainly not want to rule out dismissal. Someone who is handcuffed and lying on the ground is no longer in danger, so you only deal with that in the context of the arraignment as a police task and the handling of any injuries. In view of the recent reaction of the police general, in which he expresses regret, it is clear that the use of force by the person concerned is beyond his control. There should be an appropriate response.