Four policemen have been transferred to inactive posts after a young driver was arrested and handcuffed for alleged possession of ketamine – in reality a sachet of camphor his mother put there to deodorise the car.
News of the bungle sparked heavy criticism of the police on social media.
Pol Maj Gen Chumphon Phumphuang, chief of Samut Prakan police, quickly ordered the transfer of the two commissioned and two non-commissioned officers to the provincial police operations centre pending further inquiry.
A woman complained to the media that her younger brother was wrongly arrested for alleged…
