Not to be outdone by their counterparts within the south, Region eight Police carried out an anti-crime operation, titled “Defeat Andaman.” The raids resulted within the seizure of over 200,000 meth tablets and 96 firearms with 320 suspects being arrested.
Defeat Andaman aims to reduce crime and improve life within the area, despite a name implying the other. The operation additionally led to the confiscation of 228 objects of property valued at about 41.3 million baht. The pull included 9 vehicles and two houses with land.
Speaking on the Region 8 Police headquarters in Mai Khao, the deputy nationwide police chief announced the Defeat Andaman initiative’s success. The marketing campaign focused drug networks and operations in the seven southern provinces underneath the Region 8 Police jurisdiction.
The provinces – Chumphon, Krabi, Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Phang Nga, Phuket, Ranong, and Surat Thani – include a number of the hottest vacationer hotspots within the country.
The drug crackdown campaign was ordered by the nationwide police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittipraphat. While police struggle drug crime constantly, this sweep marks the primary campaign of the yr under the Defeat Andaman banner.
Components of 320 suspects have been arrested, with 18 taken into custody on excellent warrants for arrest. The drug haul netted a complete of 196.51 grammes of ice along with 235,290 meth tablets. Police additionally confiscated 112 property objects valued at 41,300,572 baht and ninety six guns and weapons.
The police officers will proceed to take intensive motion to scale back the spread of narcotics in all areas, based on the deputy national police chief. Officials did not release province-specific details though, so it is unclear how many arrests had been made and how many medicine had been seized in Phuket or Surat Thani, for example.
The massive string of Defeat Andaman raids got here just after Provincial Police Region 9 went on a raiding rampage the day before busting 319 drug rings in at some point. Over 200 folks have been arrested and drugs worth over 17 million baht had been seized in over 600 places throughout a sequence of raids in Thailand’s southern provinces on Monday..