At 4pm yesterday, Amnoyporn Samneing, village headman of Moo 6 in Srisoonthon and his assistant Chaermpon Kerdsap went to Provincial hall and requested that Gov Nisit investigate two men who searched his office looking for illegal items.
Amnoyporn said that at around 3:30pm on Monday two men came to his office in a pick-up truck and told him they were officers from the human trafficking crime suppression unit.
“The two men asked to search my office because they believed it contained illegal items. They had no identification or warrant.
“Even though they found nothing illegal, their search damaged our reputation and more importantly, we don't know who they were.
“Today we want officials to check into these two men to see if they were actually police officers,” said Mr Amnoyporn.
After receiving the complaint Gov Nisit said that he has asked Phuket Provincial police to investigate the matter because Mr Amnoyporn had provided CCTV footage of the incident.
“This is not right, and it is not the way police should carry out a search. Furthermore, the village headman is local leader, he deserves respect even from police officers,” said Gov Nisit.