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  • A New Year gift from Phuket Police

    A New Year gift from Phuket Police

    PHUKET: Patong Police are looking forward to giving the people of Phuket a gift for the New Year – public parking spaces along the Patong beach road that are free of taxi and tuk-tuk thugs. Lt Col Akanit Danpitaksat, Deputy Superintendent of the Patong Police, said his team was ready to enforce the new regulation to reduce the number of taxis occupying parking places throughout Patong and elsewhere in Phuket.

  • Phuket car bomb linked to dead man in Deep South

    Phuket car bomb linked to dead man in Deep South

    PHUKET: The pickup truck rigged with a bomb that was found parked at Phuket City Police Station over the weekend belonged to man who was shot dead in Pattani on May 9, police have confirmed.

  • Ghost riding Russian injured in Phuket motorbike crash

    Ghost riding Russian injured in Phuket motorbike crash

    PHUKET: A ghost-riding Russian was injured in a crash just after midnight yesterday on Thepkasattri Road. Eyewitnesses told police that the man was driving as if he was drunk. He allegedly took a spill near the Thai Watsadu megastore, then got back on his bike and drove toward the Heroine’s Monument, where he continued heading south toward Phuket Town, but in the northbound lane.

  • Phuket Opinion: Hold the icy judgments of police volunteers

    Phuket Opinion: Hold the icy judgments of police volunteers

    PHUKET: The arrest of well-known former Tourist Police Volunteer Gary Halpin, and the very serious charge of selling the illegal narcotic ya ice (crystal methamphetamine), rocked the Phuket expat community this week (story

  • Police raids uncover drug dens in Soi Ya Bah, Phuket Town

    Police raids uncover drug dens in Soi Ya Bah, Phuket Town

    PHUKET: Police yesterday arrested two men after separate raids on the same small street in Samkong, Phuket Town, resulted in the seizure of 1,818 pills of ya bah (methamphetamine) and 4.99 grams of ya ice (crystal methamphetamine). Acting on a tip-off, officers arrived at the house of Worasak Bamrung, 30, in Soi Prayoon 3/1 (map

  • Skull fragment found in Phuket believed to be of missing 7-year-old

    Skull fragment found in Phuket believed to be of missing 7-year-old

    PHUKET: Fragments of a human skull have been found in Chalong along with clothing and slippers that match those of missing 7-year-old Natthapa “Nong Dear” Papkaew (story

  • Phuket Police rule out ‘Nui’ as suspect in missing Nong Dear probe

    Phuket Police rule out ‘Nui’ as suspect in missing Nong Dear probe

    PHUKET: Chalong Police today ruled out the Bangkok Monster “Nui” as a prime suspect in the Phuket Nong Dear case. Known only as Nui, as police have yet to release his full name, the prime suspect in the case that has outraged the nation confessed on live television to the abduction and rape of “about 10 girls”. He also confessed to killing some of them (story

  • Drowning of Phuket boy, 9, spurs lifeguard warning

    Drowning of Phuket boy, 9, spurs lifeguard warning

    PHUKET: The drowning of a 9-year-old boy at Karon Beach over the weekend has sparked a warning from Phuket lifeguards for parents to never leave children unwatched at the beach. “Children should never be left unattended near the surf, even if no red flags have been posted to mark it as a dangerous area to swim,” Kata-Karon chief lifeguard Uten Singsom told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Phuket Police to target foreigners at night

    Phuket Police to target foreigners at night

    PHUKET: Foreigners passing through checkpoints at night will be stopped and searched as part of a new effort to ensure the safety of people and property on Phuket, police announced today. The police initiative is motivated by two recent ATM robberies perpetrated by foreigners and the fact that the number of foreign suspects in criminal cases sharply increased this year, said Phuket Provincial Police Deputy Commander Peerayuth Karachedi

  • Phuket Provincial Hall officially re-opens today

    Phuket Provincial Hall officially re-opens today

    PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Hall, closed at the request of anti-government protesters last month, officially re-opened today.