Banglamung Police teamed up with a contingent of Royal Thai Army personnel to set up road checkpoints in the local Banglamung area. There was a simple but important aim to the operation - to identify and arrest drug users.
Manpower was split into two teams one team of Police officers, district officials and Army officers took up position with a traffic checkpoint in the middle of Soi Thai Udom which intersects with Soi Pho Thi Sarn. The second checkpoint was in the middle of Soi Nern Phlab Wan in front of Sawang Boriboon Wittaya school.
Suspicious looking teenagers were pulled over and summarily drug tested.
The checkpoint in Soi Nernplubwan came in first in the find a druggie competition and netted 27 teenagers who tested positive for banned substances. The checkpoint in Soi Thai Udom came in a close second with 25 teenagers failing the urine test.
All of the drug failures got a free ride to Banglamung police station where further testing awaited them and if proved still positive then they face a day in court.
