About 120,000 police will ensure security and prevent election fraud during Sunday’s provincial administrative organisation (PAO) elections, the country’s first local elections in more than six years.
“We’ve ordered provincial police to be be vigilant and keep an eye out for vote buying, especially on ‘Howling Night,'” deputy national police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapat told media on Friday.
“Howling night” is a term for pre-election vote buying.
Up to 120,000 police have been instructed to ensure things go smoothly and also prevent and arrest anyone involved in election fraud at the 96,000 polling stations throughout the country.
Provincial police in 10 provinces were on alert for potential violent incidents. These provinces are Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Ratchasima, Sakon Nakhon, Nan, Phichit, Kanchanaburi, Nakhon Si Thammarat and…
