Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn gestures during an interview with the Bangkok Post in January last year. (File photo)
Pol Lt Gen Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn, who was removed as Immigration Bureau (IB) commissioner in 2019, has been officially reappointed to the Royal Thai Police (RTP).
RTP spokesman Pol Maj Gen Yingyos Thepjamnong confirmed on Wednesday the transfer order had been signed last Friday by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha as chairman of the Police Commission (PC) in charge of manpower reallocation.
Pol Lt Gen Surachate is now regarded as being back in the police force, although his precise post has not been been decided.
He headed the IB until 2019, when he was suddenly shunted out of law enforcement to a civilian post of adviser at the Prime Minister’s Office, where he faced a probe. No…
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