January 17, 2021
The Nation
A police senior sergeant-major in Surat Thani province has been suspended from duties for allegedly raping a Myanmar drug suspect at a local police station.
The officer was an investigation squad leader at Bo Phut Police Station in Surat Thani’s Koh Samui district.
Surat Thani police chief Pol Maj-General Sathit Pholpinit issued an urgent order on Jan 13 suspending the officer, and appointed a disciplinary committee to investigate the incident within seven days.
The alleged incident reportedly took place at around 1.50am to 2.30am on Jan 13, when the suspect took a 21-year-old female Myanmar national, who had been detained at Bo Phut Police Station on a drug charge, out of her holding cell to another room. After allegedly being raped, she was taken back to the cell.