BANGKOK: Steal extorting money from the general public hardly constitutes information in Thailand – however it is noteworthy when the police themselves become victims of malfeasance. Between March and October this 12 months, Pol Sgt Tarntip Preak-kratok managed to skim off almost 3 million baht in fines collected by the Nongkam Police Station, the place she was employed as a desk clerk. The probe adopted months of requests to inspect the station’s accounting data, but Sgt Tarnthip kept stalling the investigators by telling them that the data were not updated but. Finally, on November 1, investigators organized a gathering with Sgt Tarnthip. When they arrived they found that she had absconded. Checking the data she had left behind, the investigators discovered that she had been helping herself to ninety,000 baht a week. The errant sergeant was discovered just four days later in her house province of Kanchanaburi – perhaps indicating why she had by no means climbed up the police ranks to the place of investigator – and