Police chief admits mistake after cops shoot up the wrong car injuring woman

[webfact 79,099]

Police chief admits mistake after cops shoot up the wrong car injuring woman

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The police chief in Trang in the south of Thailand has admitted that a mistake was made after officers from the Huay Yot district shot at the wrong fleeing car. 

 

They mistook a Nissan Almera for a Nissan Juke. 

 

They shot an entirely innocent female clerk in the leg. Fortunately she is recovering in hospital.

 

Trouble had flared in neighboring Krabi province in Klong Tom district during a domestic dispute in which a man held his wife at a house. 

 

Police and a phu yai ban were injured in a shootout and the husband took off with the wife in a white Nissan Juke.

 

Officers in Trang thought they had found the right car and shot at it. It turned out to be a Nissan Almera and fishing business clerk Neungruthai, 29, was hit in the left thigh. Her husband, the driver, and relatives in the back were uninjured. 

 

The husband has promised legal action.

 

Krabi provincial police chief Pol Maj-Gen Santhat Winson admitted a mistake had been made and promised justice for all putting the local police chief in charge of an investigative committee. He said 10 officers were involved in the error. 

 

He said he had visited the victim in hospital. The bullet had been extracted from her leg and she was recovering. Luckily it didn't hit a main artery.

 

Soure: Daily News

 

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[Dagfinnur Traustason 730]

Very similar!

[colinneil 74,379]

42 minutes ago, webfact said:

The husband has promised legal action.

Yes and rightly so, bloody ridiculous shooting at a car, not even knowing it was the correct car.

What can you expect though from the pathetic plods?

[spiekerjozef 4,511]

They mistook a white car with a blue car.

[LungKen 6]

So it was said  "oops my bad" after all what else could be said though he did get the bullet back and will match it up with the officers involved weapons' to just check to who will pay for it all,  IMHO.

[animalmagic 2,800]

1 hour ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

Very similar!

Yeah, the Juke is probably one of the ugliest and most recognisable shapes around!

Mind you, I have just seen a Farang at Big C take his trolley to a white Honda Jazz, press the remote door lock and try to get in.  After several seconds he realised that the 'beep-beep' noise was coming from his white Toyota Yaris parked 3 spaces away.

[sammieuk1 20,149]

The chief must be a bit relived his officers hit something at all but now he will have to come up will at least 10k compo and a fair few wai's  

[klauskunkel 20,660]

He will have to pay for a new car, hospital stay, future health issues, recompensation for injuries...

probably has to reopen a few of his gambling dens he preemptively shut down before...

Edited January 6 by klauskunkel

[PETERTHEEATER 3,175]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

They shot an entirely innocent female clerk in the leg. Fortunately she is recovering in hospital.

 

After consuming an entire basket of Essence of Chicken provided free by the local constabulary......

[Asquith Production 213]

1 hour ago, animalmagic said:

Yeah, the Juke is probably one of the ugliest and most recognisable shapes around!

Mind you, I have just seen a Farang at Big C take his trolley to a white Honda Jazz, press the remote door lock and try to get in.  After several seconds he realised that the 'beep-beep' noise was coming from his white Toyota Yaris parked 3 spaces away.

Thats why it is called the Joke

 

[metisdead 8,882]

An off topic post has been removed. 

[Bender Rodriguez 3,053]

well, gangs also shoot the wrong person sometimes, and the men in brown are a gang after all

[ab1594 13]

Some other province police did this a couple of years ago too and it cost them a brand new Hybrid Camry 1.5milion and all the hospital bills too if i remember correctly

[Srikcir 14,671]

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

Yes and rightly so, bloody ridiculous shooting at a car, not even knowing it was the correct car.

What can you expect though from the pathetic plods?

Regardless of it not being the correct car, police firing at the vehicle wherein the alleged abuse victim wife might be inside along her husband's side is a massive error in judgement. 

But apparently the police didn't look beyond the color of the vehicle, taking no effort to ascertain who is in the vehicle. 

This looks like a "cowboy" take down. 

[andersonat 276]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Krabi provincial police chief Pol Maj-Gen Santhat Winson admitted a mistake had been made and promised justice for all putting the local police chief in charge of an investigative committee

 

The *least* that General Santhat could have done is to put a *non*-local Police Chief in charge of the Investigative Committee.