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Embarrassed Thai police vow to probe Chinese tourist’s ‘VIP police escort’

The national police have convened a committee to investigate a Chinese traveler’s tale of how easy and convenient it was to get an airport “VIP escort” courtesy of, yes, the national police.

Three cops have already been reassigned after they were seen in the woman’s breathless video recounting how she easily skipped immigration and got a paid police escort all the way to Pattaya that drew outrage over the weekend. Police spokesperson Atchayon Kraithong said police would investigate and warned officers they would be disciplined for providing such services.

He said that the Royal Thai Police, which oversees everything from patrol officers and tourist police to the Immigration Bureau, would get to the bottom of it all, including those who coordinated the service and whether they used public or government-owned vehicles.

That could take them to unlikely heights…

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