Law and judiciary

Crime and law enforcement

Crackdown on illegal checkpoints

The General Commissariat of National Police has announced it will take legal action against police officers found abusing their positions and demanding money from people at illegal checkpoints. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35280/crackdown--on-illegal--checkpoints/

Police sign cooperation deal with UK’s NCA

Cambodia has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to combat crimes including child and sexual trafficking.   ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35082/police-sign-cooperation-deal-with-uk---s-nca/

More than 20 die in New Year accidents

More than 20 people were killed and 60 were injured in traffic accidents over the first two days of the Lunar New Year, a nearly 30 percent decline in fatalities compared with the same period last year.According to a National Police report, 38 traffic accidents ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34870/more-than-20-die-in-new-year-accidents/

Crime rates rising, say City Hall

The Phnom Penh Municipal Governor acknowledged that the recently implemented village-commune safety policy has been less than effective after recent crime statistics showed an increase in crime in 2016 compared with the previous year.According to a City Hall meeting held over the past two days, ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34766/crime-rates-rising--say-city-hall/

Only 23 rapes recorded in Phnom Penh last year in crime spike

Police tallied only 23 rapes in Phnom Penh last year despite an overall spike of 20 percent in criminal cases, prompting experts to caution that the data posted on the Cambodian National Police website provided only a partial picture of the city’s crimes. ...

Buth Kimsay and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/only-23-rapes-recorded-in-phnom-penh-last-year-in-crime-spike-123666/

Few arrests under new traffic law

Only 600 drivers have been sent to court since the new Traffic Law technically took effect in January and legally in March.According to a National Road Safety Committee report released yesterday, out of almost 10 million vehicles that were checked, 1.5 million were found to ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33660/few-arrests-under-new-traffic-law/

Traffic law to change again

The Permanent Committee of the National Assembly (NA) approved a number of amendments to the Traffic Law yesterday, sending them on to parliament’s 7th plenary session for final ratification on Monday.NA spokesman Leng Peng Long said the committee decided on amendments to nine articles of ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33512/traffic-law-to-change-again/

Crackdown on unlicensed truck drivers

Truck drivers without licenses who take workers to factories will not be allowed to continue working starting next April in a bid to reduce traffic accidents, the government said on Monday. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33459/crackdown-on-unlicensed-truck-drivers/

Prison rates soaring in Cambodia

Cambodia’s incarceration rate has doubled in the past 10 years, according to statistics obtained from the General Department of Prisons. Department spokesman Nouth Savna said that in 2006 there were just 9,634 people behind bars; as of earlier this week, that figure had increased 125 ...

Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-rates-soaring-cambodia

ICRC to check migrant abuse

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been asked to investigate cases of mistreatment of Cambodian migrant workers imprisoned in foreign jails, the Foreign Ministry announced this week. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31625/icrc-to-check-migrant-abuse/

More than 1,400 die, but road deaths fall

More than 3,000 traffic accidents across the country during the first 10 months of the year caused more than 1,400 deaths and about 5,300 injuries, a decline from the same period last year. According to a National Police report released yesterday, there were 3,001 traffic accidents ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31546/more-than-1-400-die--but-road-deaths-fall/

Prey lang activists ‘assaulted’ in Kratie

Three members of the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) were attacked in Kratie province on Thursday by men believed to be involved in illegal logging, PLCN activists said yesterday.​ ...

Touch Sokha and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-lang-activists-assaulted-kratie

Timber trafficking grandma charged in Phnom Penh

Well-known timber trafficker Heng Samneang was charged on Sunday with illegal logging and interfering with the work of public officials, according to a Phnom Penh Municipal Court officer, days after she allegedly tried to retrieve some of her ill-gotten timber with the help of a ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/timber-trafficking-grandma-charged-phnom-penh-119360/

Wood trafficker arrested, but where is she?

Military police said they arrested a well-known timber trafficker in Stung Treng province on Thursday after she and a group of stick-wielding thugs attempted to retrieve a pile of wood officers had seized a day earlier. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wood-trafficker-arrested-119276/

Endangered civets, snakes rescued

Three men were detained in Tbong Khmum province on Saturday afternoon for smuggling civets and snakes in the back of a Toyota SUV, possibly with the intention of selling them in neighboring Vietnam. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30610/endangered-civets--snakes-rescued/

Holiday accident toll falls

Almost 30 people were killed and nearly 140 injured in traffic accidents over the five-day Pchum Ben holiday weekend, showing a slight decrease compared with previous years. National deputy police chief Kirth Chantharith said yesterday there were 75 traffic accidents from Wednesday to Sunday which caused ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30316/holiday-accident-toll-falls/

ICRC offers prisons help

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is willing to offer assistance in future prison building projects, and in the preparation of prison management policies that are in line with international standards, the National Police website said on Tuesday. According to the website, the ICRC ...

Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30054/icrc-offers-prisons-help/

Multiple suspects arrested over grenade attack, but police offer few details

Police have arrested at least five suspects over the past two days in connection to agrenade attack that rattled a Phnom Penh neighbourhood two weeks ago, injuring four people, but officials yesterday remained tight-lipped as to the suspects’ identities and motives. ...

Mech Dara and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/multiple-suspects-arrested-over-grenade-attack-police-offer-few-details

New facility for young offenders

The Ministry of Social Affairs yesterday confirmed it would construct a new national facility to rehabilitate child offenders. The news follows a meeting last Thursday when spokesman Touch Channy told attendees that the new centre to detain juvenile offenders would be built following the recent adoption ...

Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-facility-young-offenders

Gov’t: drive safe, pay workers

The Interior Ministry is hoping last year’s relative decrease in traffic accidents and deaths during the Pchum Ben holiday is a sign of things to come and asked citizens again this year to drive safely as they crisscross the country to celebrate the holiday. In a ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29891/gov---t--drive-safe--pay-workers/

Kem Ley’s brother brands official’s comments ‘insulting’

After an Interior Ministry spokes­man last week suggested that an investigation into the murder of Kem Ley had been slowed by his wife fleeing the country, the slain analyst’s friends and family on Sunday blasted the government’s slow and secretive response over the past two ...

Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-leys-brother-brands-officials-comments-insulting-117879/

Grenade attack injures three people in Phnom Penh

At least three people were injured in a grenade attack on Street 163 in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Keng Kang III commune at about 7:40pm yesterday evening, police said. The victims did not appear to be the intended targets of the grenade, which was tossed under a ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya, Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grenade-attack-injures-three-people-phnom-penh

Garment truck crashes in Kompong Speu; 39 injured

A truck packed with garment workers traveling to factories in Kompong Speu province overturned on Wednesday while attempting to avoid another truck crossing the road, injuring 39 women, including a dozen who suffered broken arms and legs, officials said. ...

Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-truck-crashes-in-kompong-speu-39-injured-116263/

Campaign to reduce traffic accidents

The government launched a campaign yesterday to distribute 3.4 million pieces of reflective tape in an effort to reduce traffic accidents at night, with Prime Minister Hun Sen ordering officials and party members to give the tape out for free and threatening to arrest anyone ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27981/campaign-to-reduce-traffic-accidents/

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