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Thailand’s honest cops urged to protest after corruption outed in parliament

Police corruption will be the focus of a rally called for tomorrow after the grotesque reality of how it works was laid out in parliament last week.

Amid rising clashes with the civilian police, protest organizer Ratsadon group last night announced a bid to swing the police force to its side by calling on officers not benefiting from the pay-to-promote patronage system to gather at 5pm on Tuesday at the Ratchaprasong intersection, a stone’s throw from national police headquarters.

“Good work, well-recognized work, but without lobbying, you will be stuck at the same place,” read the group’s statement appealing to the rank and file who are frozen out of advancement. “Police, it’s time to choose whether to side with the civilians or the tyrants!”

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