Two Pattaya Police Volunteers assaulted two teenagers they wrongly believed to be suspects in a necklace snatching.
The two heavily-bruised 17-year-olds were found face down and handcuffed by commissioned police officers near Thepprasit Soi 11 Aug. 12. The unidentified volunteers said they apprehended the teens because they were riding a motorbike with a license plate similar, but not identical, to one used in a necklace snatching on Soi Buakaow that day.
Police look on as one of the rogue police volunteers (#3) continues to harass the innocent teens.
The real police officers took the teens to Pattaya Police Station where the victim was giving a statement. She said the two boys were not the ones who stole her necklace.
Despite the obvious abuse, the police volunteers offered only an apology to the incensed teens. The boys protested to police station officials that they were physically and verbally abused for no reason and that, they believed, they were better people and citizens than the supposedly ethical volunteers.
Regular police officials didn’t deny their assertions.
