Police to arrest PDRC leader

BANGKOK, January 17 (TNA) - Thailand's Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul says that police have kept monitoring movements of secretary-general to the anti-government People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) in order to nab him when it is possible. Surapong, who is also chief of the caretaker government's Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO), acknowledged on Friday that Thai police tasked with apprehending the PDRC leader have been divided into two teams, one assigned by the CAPO and the other by Caretaker Labor Minister Chalerm Yubamrung. Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Police General Pracha Promnok, in the meantime, warned that civil servants or state enterprises' staffs who take part or provide any support to the PDRC will face both disciplinary and criminal charges with a 20-year criminal record. Meanwhile, Caretaker Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt ordered that security at all public transport stations or terminals in Bangkok and surrounding areas be heightened, covering those of public buses, electric trains and airports, to prevent untoward incidents.(TNA)