Nongprue Station
Superintendent Col. Somnuk Changate (right) says police are stepping up
security for the New Year holiday.
Warunya Thongrod
Nongprue police are urging residents planning to take extended
vacations during the New Year’s holiday to register their plans with
police, who are pledging to provide extra protection against burglaries.
At a Dec. 19 meeting, Nongprue Station Superintendent Col. Somnuk
Changate said police are taking extra steps to provide security through
Jan. 4. Among those are extra traffic signage and additional roadside
checkpoints.
New permanent checkpoints, he added, have been set up in front of the
Nongprue market and in front of the Pornthep 5 village.
Formally established this year, the Nongprue Station initiated 42 cases
- three-fourths of them drug-related - in the first 19 days of December.
Year to date, the station has opened 1,453 cases, he said.
Officers, however, still don’t have a permanent station. Police wanted
to build a station on seven rai of land on Soi Araya owned by the
Interior Ministry. The Royal Thai Police have refused, however, to
allocate the 78 million baht needed for the project until the ministry
sells or transfers the land title. Negotiations are ongoing, but the
soonest the station can be built is during the 2015 fiscal year.
