Police Set Up Safety Zone In Siam Square

[george]

Police set up safety zone in Siam Square

BANGKOK: -- Metropolitan police, in cooperation with Chulalongkorn University, has set up a safety zone in Siam Square, one of Bangkok's most favourite tourist places for Thai and foreign youths.

The metropolitan police have established a close-circuit TV system in the area, with 134 TV sets installed in 16 selected points, according to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, Pol. Lt. Gen. Pansiri Praphawat.

"This is aimed at preventing and monitoring crime in the area", he told TNA this morning.

"The close circuit-TVs have been linked to safety command centres at police stations and in Chulalongkorn University", he noted.

Over 300 police officers, security guards and defence volunteers had also been deployed in the area to be on security services 24 hours, said the metropolitan police chief.

--TNA 2004-12-14

[Captain Chaos]

It's very nice of them to take all this trouble ..... but does anyone know why?

I go down to Siam Square quite a lot in the evenings, which usually turns into a late night out at CM2 and have never seen any 'incidents' there.

Anyone know better?

[HarryHacker]

It's very nice of them to take all this trouble ..... but does anyone know why?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looking for Chula B & W Up-Skirt shots?

[Ijustwannateach]

I would guess the key is the popular place for THAI youths, especially rich uppity youths with overprotective parents... you've got a couple of big important high schools just up the road, not to mention Chula itself- it's just another security measure to protect the overprotected.

"Steven"

[Erwin1011]

Don't forget the PM's family members run a business there! He already tried to interfere in a rental price hike.

[sriracha john]

The most important person in the area is Phaethongtharn Shinawatra, the prime minister’s youngest daughter who’s now a first-year student at Chulalongkorn University, who by the way, has entered the list of billionaires with a net worth of Bt1.42 billion, courtesy of her 14 per cent holdings in SC Asset Corporation. Not to be confused with Pinthongtha Shinawatra, the second child of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra; she’s ranked as Thailand’s richest billionaire this year with more than Bt18 billion in stock-market holdings. Their poor brother, Panthongthae Shinawatra, the prime minister’s eldest son, has retained his fourth-place ranking with a net worth of Bt11.09 billion.

Edited December 14, 2004 by sriracha john