A deputy police inspector at a Nakhon Sawan police station has been sent to jail after he was arrested for selling speed pills.
Pol Sub Lt Sutthirat Amphasawet, 55, was arrested while delivering 40 speed pills to a police spy posing as a customer near his police station on Monday, according to the chief of his police station.
The deputy inspector had used areas inside the police station compound to sell illicit drugs, the police chief said.
An investigation led to the arrest of three local residents involved in the selling of illicit drugs with 333 speed pills seized from them, the chief said.
Before the arrest, the arresting team made a plan to send a spy to pose as a customer to buy 40 speed pills from Pol Sub Lt Sutthirat for 1,500 baht. The officer then asked the buyer to collect the drugs at a garage near the police station at 2.30pm on Monday. When the drugs were delivered, the team arrested him.
Pol Sub Lt Sutthirat was taken for a urine test for drugs and tested positive. A search of his room at a police flat found 42 more speed pills.
