Somyot wants new pistols for police
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National police chief Pol General Somyot Poompanmuang sent a letter yesterday to the permanent secretary of the Interior Ministry to request the import - direct procurement - of some 152,469 Sig Sauer pistols from a manufacturer in the United States.
This was part of a voluntary “welfare scheme” to procure the 9mm Sig Saucer Model P320 handguns for police as personal property for official use at an affordable price (Bt18,000). The weapons would supplement official handguns that were not sufficient and less modern due to limits on the procurement budget, according to the letter.
Under the scheme, a policeman must accept the following conditions before buying one of these guns: the purchaser must be a police officer; the full sum must be paid in cash; ownership of pistols cannot be transferred to others, unless they are inherited by children from their parents.
