Cops on every corner at 7am!?!

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Cops on every corner at 7am!?!

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So I'm in a tuktuk in PP around the 6AM-7AM Mark. EVERY corner had army style cops with rifles and several other street level cops. Is this normal?? Wtf is going on, very strange to see.

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Nothing unusual, they deploy at strategic locations on along the route of travel whenever HE and his motorcade are travelling, or high level diplomats.
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Ahhhh that makes sense
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On a related note.
While we were riding around this morning going to opticians I noticed a lot more police on street junctions than usual. Not the armed guys for the high level gov. convoys but the regular police.
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Yeah it's a bit weird they got all their new traffic lights complete with cameras courtesy of the Chinese, but can't turn them all red at once for the motorcades. Or perhaps they can but don't trust most people to actually stop. OK never mind.
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HappyChappy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 1:38 pm EVERY corner had army style cops with rifles and several other street level cops.
The "army style cops" are usually Bodyguard HQ or Gendarmerie which are army units, although Gendarmerie have a role in civilian policing. There are sometimes Justice/Intervention Police too, they wear bottle green outfits with a bright green scales of justice badge.
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timmydownawell wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 3:58 pm Yeah it's a bit weird they got all their new traffic lights complete with cameras courtesy of the Chinese, but can't turn them all red at once for the motorcades. Or perhaps they can but don't trust most people to actually stop. OK never mind.
Did pedestrian crossings at the riverside make traffic stop when people wanted to cross the road ? :)

Half the population probably things red light means Go anyway :)
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IraHayes wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 3:24 pm On a related note.
While we were riding around this morning going to opticians I noticed a lot more police on street junctions than usual. Not the armed guys for the high level gov. convoys but the regular police.
Because when the motorcade come they will stop traffic from connecting roads. Then you got police in all intersections and it can be either traffic police, normal police, military or bhq.

Need at least 2 per intersection. That would be alot of fully armed BHQ guys just to stop some motorbikes from going through.
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:12 pm
HappyChappy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 1:38 pm EVERY corner had army style cops with rifles and several other street level cops.
The "army style cops" are usually Bodyguard HQ or Gendarmerie which are army units, although Gendarmerie have a role in civilian policing. There are sometimes Justice/Intervention Police too, they wear bottle green outfits with a bright green scales of justice badge.
What's the HQ stand for?
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Headquarters.
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