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This Sunday, local residents routed a high-profile police raid on a Bang Sue casino by attacking the raiding police officers with whatever was on hand, sometimes resorting to hurling scalding water on officers in order to protect their turf.
The casino in question has been a thorn in the Division 2 police’s side for some time. Police first raided the establishment, located off Techa Wanit road, in 2011 and this February, the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), froze ownership of the casino’s land.
After at least two years of trying to take down this casino, cops decided this Sunday to try and overrun it by means of brute force. The operation this Sunday involved 200 police officers, including 50 detectives and 150 heavily armed riot police.
However, poor coordination between these two groups allowed the casino’s owners and patrons to escape unharmed.
The 50 detectives originally turned up at the casino, where fortified entryways kept them from carrying out their mandate. These detectives withstood attacks from local citizens while waiting for a 150-strong backup force, which turned up long after the casino’ dealers and clients had fled.
Again faced with problems from the casino’s fortifications, this secondary unit resorted to scaling buildings opposite the casino and trying to enter it from its second and third floors, all the while receiving attacks from locals in the form of hurled rocks and wooden sticks.
No arrests resulted from the raid, but the Bangkok Post reports that two officers were injured in the action nonetheless. According to police sources, a police major and a captain fell while scaling the casino’s roof and a falling roof tile struck a sergeant major, landing him with a skull laceration.
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