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Police chief orders crackdown on lorry drivers nationwide

National police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas has ordered officials nationwide to enforce the law on overloaded lorries after news of them paying “sticker bribes” surfaced last week.

The sticker-bribe scandal came to light after Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn, a Move Forward Party list MP-elect, said overloaded trucks with special stickers were not being detained, nor were their drivers ever arrested.

Pol Gen Damrongsak yesterday signed a memorandum with deputy chiefs, inspector-generals and police commissioners of provincial divisions to assure the public that steps were being taken to fix the issue.

More checkpoints will be set up to take action against overweight lorries and other illegal activities, such as lorries that that make loud noises or release billows of black smoke,…

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