Police face demotion for searching oknha's car for rosewood.

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Police face demotion for searching oknha's car for rosewood.

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Just stay in your hammocks guys, nothing to see here. It can't be very motivating to be demoted for doing your job correctly.

Sao Sokha apologises to oknha for car inspection
Mon, 14 November 2016
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Five military police officers in Kampong Chhnang face demotion and punishment for inspecting the car of a powerful ruling party lawmaker for illegal timber, it emerged yesterday.

In an apology letter sent to CPP lawmaker for Siem Reap and business tycoon oknha Sieng Nam published in local media, military police chief Sao Sokha says the unnamed officers, who searched the parliamentarian’s car for rosewood in March, would be “educated” about “parliamentary immunity”.

“The five have been removed for education and punishment in order to make them better understand the law, discipline, professional ethics and especially the immunity of the lawmaker,” Sokha wrote in the September 9 letter. “When finished, the five military policemen will face punishment that complies with [military law].”

Military police spokesman Eng Hy said the men’s punishment could include a verbal and written reprimand and demotion. “What they did contradicts with their duties,” Hy said, while declining to go into detail about how the men, who were reportedly responding to an anonymous tip, had breached rules regulating to troops’ conduct...
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Re: Police face demotion for searching oknha's car for rosewood.

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So becoming an Oknha ought to mean that one can use one's vehicle to carry crystal meth, heroin, rosewood, guns, Semtex - in short, the expenditure
required to achieve Oknha status could - with luck - be recouped in a very short time.
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Poor guys...
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That's terrible. I remember quite a few statements from various government leaders, police chiefs, army generals etc that specifically said that the rank & file should just arrest anyone breaking the law, regardless of position.
You have all these different groups with overlapping jurisdictions, and they are given contradictory orders. Punishing the confused guards/ foot soldiers is just scapegoating.
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