Bangkok chief excutive Chadchart Sittipunt offers urged city occupants to report the particular locations of gambling dens via the Traffy Fondue application therefore the information can be forwarded to the police.
Mr Chadchart said City Hall has no authority in order to raid such dens and arrest these involved in illegal gambling, but people may report the locations via the app that is connected to 88 police stations in the funds.
“City Hall is ready to get information reported with the app — whether it be about the illegal utilization of a building or locations that cause health hazards, ” Mr Chadchart said.
Five senior Din Daeng law enforcement station officers were transferred pending an inquiry into supposed negligence after protection camera footage showing an armed man stealing cash from a gambling den in their district went viral.
The footage was first submitted on the “team large kren” and “Sai Mai Tong Rot” Facebook pages on Wed evening.
The footage displays an armed guy wearing a red cap with a tattoo in the left arm waving that gun in the gambling den and snatching cash from a plastic box in the space of the minute.
Police said this individual stole about three hundred, 000 baht within cash. The suspect, later identified as Thanadisai Sompong, 35, turned himself in upon Thursday. He has been to initially face robbery and firearms charges, police stated.
Law enforcement yesterday took Mr Thanadisai to the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road to seek the detention order whilst further investigations had been carried out.
Police are also collecting evidence to file costs against the operator from the casino, which utilized to house a snooker club before it had been turned into a gambling den.
Pol Col Ekkarat Pao-in, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Law enforcement Bureau’s 1st Department, said the snooker club, located in Soi Pracha Songkhro 6, opened on Jan 5 when anti-government protests took place in the region.
This particular prevented police through inspecting the area and yes it was secretly changed into a gambling living area, he said.
About 15 hours after becoming alerted to the thievery, police inspected the particular gambling den only to find it was an empty area.