Crime

Following last years brazen robbery on a Jomtien gold shop by three armed men who were quickly apprehended. Pattaya Police recently held a gold shop robbery drill to prepare themselves for future gold robbery crimes.

On October 19, newly appointed District Chief Prosecutor Mr. Wattana Swatthong met with one of the key witnesses and an alleged victim in the international case developing against Lance Frederick Shaw to assure people in Pattaya and everywhere justice will be served without corruption and this case is no exception regardless of any claims anyone may have made saying Mr. Shaw has protection from prosecution because of police connections.

Investigation into the on-going case against Lance Shaw - while he was based in Pattaya and operating the Hiperfinance gold scheme - has shown that all of the Royal Thai Police Immigration Bureau officers acted properly in all regards and, in fact, were responsible for the initial capture of the fugitive Lance Shaw.

Legal loopholes and insufficient law enforcement mean that Thailand continues to harbour the largest illegal ivory market in Asia, says a report from the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.