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Phuket Police under fire: Chalong Police face cleanup under new station chief

PHUKET: Officers of the Chalong Police have found themselves under tight scrutiny from their new chief, the recently reinstated superintendent Col Sirisak Wasasiri, following a blockade of the police station on Monday.All officers must now provide daily reports of their activities, inform Col Sirisak each time they leave the station on police work and provide the results of their efforts when they....

Baby found abandoned in Phuket pickup

PHUKET: Police are searching for the mother of a newborn baby boy found abandoned in the bed of a pickup truck in front of a luxury Phuket resort last night.The baby is healthy and is being cared for at Vachira Phuket Hospital, said Wichit Police Deputy Superintendent Jakkawat Boontaweekulsawat.Hotel staffer Anchalee Singsoon, 39, discovered the infant in the back of her pickup truck after she arrived for work at the...

Financial distress prime suspect in Phuket man’s suicide plunge

PHUKET: Police investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the carpark of a public housing estate in Rassada this morning have determined the man leapt to his demise.Officers were called to the Karn Keha estate near Soi Kingkaew at about 9am.“We found the body of Pongsak Pitchapan, 47, on the ground in front of the main building,” said Capt Wichat Kongtawai of the Phuket City Police.“We...

Another Phuket beach befouled by wastewater, again

PHUKET: Dirty, smelly water is flowing across a Phuket beach again, not in the south this time, but in Bang Tao in the north, causing health and economic problems for local boat operators.The source of the problem, say the boatmen, is local hotels dumping untreated wastewater into the Bang Tao Canal, which spills it onto the beach and into the sea.“Some of us have skin problems because we have to walk...