Pol Gen Seripisut replaces Kowit as police super boss
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Pol Gen Kowit Watana is dismissed as police commissioner general on Monday and be transferred to the PM's Office, about a month after series of bomb attacks rocked Bangkok and suburbs.
Prime Minister Surayudh Chulanont signed the order on Monday and appointed Pol Gen Seripisut Temiyavet, an advisor to the police department as acting police chief.The order took immediate effect. Many have called for the government to sack Kowit after he and his department failed to provide safety for the people. Moreover police still failed to find culprits who involved in the bomb attacks that killed three people and injured many others. The calls to oust Kowit were intensified following bomb attack at the Daily News newspaper and nearby hotel. No one was arrested. Kowit was said to have close connection with ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The Nation
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