‘ Big Tai ‘ denies rushing to create work and going on a press tour to keep an eye on the new police chief position. He admits that he met with ‘Prime Minister Ung Ing ‘ to talk only about drugs. He insists that he was not approached to sit in the police chief position. He is personally ready to work with the new government. He denies that there is a vacuum.
Pol. Gen. Kittirat Panphet, Deputy Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police, confirmed that the current campaign to announce drug arrests is not to rush to create results in order to get the new Commissioner-General’s seat, but because he is responsible for prevention and suppression work and has been assigned as the Director of the Center for the Prevention and Suppression of Narcotics. The drug problem is a threat and causes public anxiety because it causes people to go crazy, harm innocent people, and widely consume it. Therefore, it is his duty to continue suppressing as usual. He does not think about creating results or wanting to announce any
results at all. He only wants to work and be happy with his work, which is enough. Let me answer this directly.
He also confirmed that he never set a goal for the consideration of the position of the National Police Chief. He has worked and grown to this day, taking care of the police under his command and taking care of the people, and he is happy. When he is assigned any duties, he will do them to the best of his ability. As for the consideration of the position of the new National Police Chief that will occur, it is up to those with the authority and duty according to the Police Act to propose the names to the meeting, which are the Prime Minister and all Deputy National Police Chief candidates. He is confident that everyone is working equally hard because everyone has duties. The consideration depends on the Prime Minister and the National Police Commission meeting to decide on their opinions or resolutions. It is a matter for the future.
Pol. Gen. Kittirat admitted that he was summoned to a meeting by
the government of Ms. Paethongtarn Shinawatra, the Prime Minister, to provide a policy and guidelines for driving the drug issue only. There was no approach about the position of the National Police Chief in any way. He personally thinks that the new government that has come to administer the country focuses heavily on preventing and suppressing drugs. The current form of drug prevention focuses on taking drug users for treatment and crazy people who go on a rampage and harm people, which are targets that must be urgently found and brought in for treatment as soon as possible. He is also waiting to hear the policy statement from the new government about which policies the police must drive forward. In the meantime, he confirmed that there is no vacuum and the police will continue to work according to the policies and guidelines laid out by Mr. Settha Thavisin, the former Prime Minister. He is personally responsible for drugs, gambling dens, loan sharks, and debt collector gangs. These are things that must be
taken care of and solved. As for the other deputy national police chiefs, they are also responsible for their assigned duties.
When reporters asked whether he went to meet Thaksin Shinawatra or Paethongtarn, the deputy national police chief reiterated that he went to meet Paethongtarn, not Thaksin, and asked whether he would seek advice from Thaksin on drug suppression. Pol. Gen. Kittirat stated that he believed that all government executives saw the importance and were determined to seriously suppress drugs, regardless of who they were. He also confirmed that he was confident and would work with the new government according to their assigned duties, doing their best and not expecting anything. He was happy with just that. He also emphasized that he went to talk about drugs 100% only, and there was no approach about a position because on the day he went, the military, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board, and the Ministry of Public Health went to listen to the policy implementation and implementation gu
idelines. He himself spent no more than 20 minutes there before leaving. As for Pol. Gen. Torsak Sukwimol, the national police chief, he did not know because he went to meet him in his capacity as the person responsible for drug work.
Source: Thai News Agency