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Reasons differ for the spike in drug busts

Drug cases in Cambodia nearly tripled in the first nine months of 2015 compared to the same period last year, police announced on Friday, though authorities and civil society groups differed on the cause behind the spike.The deputy chief of National Police, Mok Chito, said ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/reasons-differ-spike-drug-busts

SIM card crackdown

Anyone who purchased a mobile phone SIM card without providing appropriate ID can expect to see those phone numbers terminated, while any retailer selling SIM cards without collecting identification documents faces arrest, the government announced yesterday. The crackdown, which begins today, will see any retailer ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sim-card-crackdown

Anti-drug units require more officers, cops say

Citing an uptick in drug cases and a lack of manpower in some provinces, the National Police yesterday announced they will be transferring scores of officers to positions in anti-drug units. ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-drug-units-require-more-officers-cops-say

Drug arrests spike in first half of year

The number of people arrested for drug trafficking during the first six months of this year has increased by 159 per cent, police officials announced on Friday. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drug-arrests-spike-first-half-year

Police ordered to monitor jewelry shops around the clock

National Police chief Neth Savoeun has issued an order to police to begin 24-hour monitoring of market jewelry shops and money exchanges, and warned officers they could be fired if they allow armed robberies to occur, according to a notice posted on the police’s website ...

Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-ordered-to-monitor-jewelry-shops-around-the-clock-80572/

Mafia ‘not welcome’

Cambodia’s National Police chief Neth Savoeun has told foreign embassies that it won’t tolerate “foreign mafia” in the Kingdom, in what appears to be a thinly veiled message to Russia concerning recent conflict between Russian nationals in Sihanoukville. According to the statement, Savoeun has been ...

Vong Sokheng and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/mafia-not-welcome

Military police to join in mining crackdown

More than 600 military police will be sent as reinforcements all over Cambodia today to aid the National Police, Ministry of Mines and Energy authorities and court officials as they inspect and crack down on illegal mining in the Kingdom. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/military-police-join-mining-crackdown

New plan for ‘state secrets’

The Ministry of Interior announced a decision to draft a law to protect state secrets after meeting with Vietnamese defence officials yesterday, the National Police has announced. According to a statement on the police website, Vietnam will support the training of government officials in encryption and ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-plan-state-secrets

Nephew of Hun Sen is made one-star general

Prime Minister Hun Sen has promoted his wayward nephew Hun Chea to brigadier general in the National Police, despite a less than sterling reputation as an upholder of law and order. Chea was promoted to the role under a Royal Decree published by the Council of ...

May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/nephew-hun-sen-made-one-star-general

6 break out of Ratanakkiri prison

Six inmates busted out of Ratanakkiri Provincial Prison in the wee hours of yesterday morning, police said, adding another incident to a string of embarrassing escapes at the facility over the past two years. According to a post on the National Police’s website, authorities in Ratanakkiri’s ...

Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/6-break-out-ratanakkiri-prison

Ten dissidents arrested for plot to ‘incite violence’

Ten members of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), a group of dissidents highly critical of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his close ties to Vietnam, were arrested over the last two days in Phnom Penh for allegedly plotting to incite violence, according to police. ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ten-dissidents-arrested-for-plot%E2%80%88to-incite-violence-70824/

Drug arrests up, seizures on decline

The number of drug arrests, including those of foreign nationals, is up this year, but total drug seizures are barely over a third of what they were last year, say the National Police. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/drug-arrests-seizures-decline

Wanted: big trucks for a big crowd

With the spectre of potential garment-sector unrest on the horizon and emboldened communities protesting land disputes, the National Police is buying what appear to be the authorities’ first water-cannon trucks designed specifically to control demonstrations. In advertisements in yesterday’s Post and Post Khmer newspapers, the ...

Kevin Ponniah and Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/wanted-big-trucks-big-crowd

Holiday traffic deaths up nearly 50 percent

The number of people killed in traffic accidents during this year’s Pchum Ben holiday and preceding two days increased by nearly 50 percent over the same period last year, a senior police official said on Thursday. From Saturday through Wednesday, there were 49 fatalities, compared to ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/holiday-traffic-deaths-up-nearly-50-percent-68466/

Two Vietnamese deported as census continues

Police in Ratanakkiri deported two more Vietnamese nationals living illegally in the northern province last week, bringing the number of expulsions to 14 as the Ministry of Interior’s census of foreigners continues, police said. This year’s census—which is now complete in Ratanakkiri, according to officials ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-vietnamese-deported-as-census-continues-67812/

China gives $3m for city surveillance system

The Chinese government on Tuesday donated $3 million to Cambodia to set up a closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system across Phnom Penh to help cut down on crime and traffic accidents, according to the national police. “This is a donation from the Chinese Ministry of Public ...

Sek Odom and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-gives-3m-for-phnom-penh-surveillance-system-66349/

Key post to PM’s son-in-law

Dy Vichea – son of the late National Police chief Hok Lundy and son-in-law to Prime Minister Hun Sen – has been appointed director of the Central Security Department at the Ministry of Interior, the National Police said yesterday. National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith said that ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-post-pm%E2%80%99s-son-law

Representatives to meet over factory fire

Representatives for the employees and owners of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire last month will meet at the Ministry of Labor today to try and hammer out a pay package for the workers, though a factory official said they would not ...

Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/representatives-to-meet-over-factory-fire-65988/

Gov’t ministers meet with regional counterparts

Defense Minister Tea Banh expressed confidence in the Thai junta’s leadership in the first meeting between top-ranking military officials from the two countries since Thailand’s army seized power two months ago, according to Thai media reports. ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-ministers-meet-with-regional-counterparts-65272/

Protest outside Kandal court as questioning starts in land case

About 200 people from Ponhea Leu district protested outside the Kandal provincial court Monday as questioning began of residents summoned last month in an ongoing land dispute. The court summoned 12 villagers on June 30, shortly after Phanimex Development company filed a complaint against the families, ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protest-outside-kandal-court-as-questioning-starts-in-land-case-64632/

Tycoon threatens to have journalists shot dead

A glass-manufacturing tycoon on Saturday threatened to shoot dead two local journalists as they were covering a dispute he was having with another businessman in Phnom Penh, according to a report posted on the National Police website. The journalists, from Cambodia Express News and Bayon TV, ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tycoon-threatens-to-have-journalists-shot-dead-63937/

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