BANGKOK: Three Pattaya policemen are to face legal action related to the escape of two suspects, a German and an American, arrested for allegedly buying sex from underage girls, a deputy national police chief on Wednesday (Dec 6).
Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn (pic), deputy commissioner-general of the Royal Thai Police, said a former chief of Pattaya police station, a deputy station chief and the police officer in charge of the case would face disciplinary action for failing to observe regulations following the arrests of the foreign suspects.
Surachate was referring to a case in September last year involving a German tourist suspected of paying a 1 million baht bribe to escape charges of buying sex from a minor in Pattaya, the notorious red-light seaside town in Chonburi province.
The case came to…
