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Bangkok Post
Bangkok Post
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ONLINE REPORTERS

'Big Joke' reports to police HQ

Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn leads a press briefing about a crackdown on a visa scam on March 5, 2019. He was transferred from the Immigration Bureau to the Royal Thai Police office on Friday night. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul)

Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn reported to the police headquarters, but then left immediately.

Pol Lt Gen Surachate was seen entering the police head office on Monday to sign up for his new job. He left the building shortly afterwards without saying anything to the media.

It was the high profile police officer's first appearance since national police chief Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda signed an order on Friday night to shunt him from the post of commissioner of the Immigration Bureau to the Royal Thai Police Operations Centre -- with no reasons given for the transfer.

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