Thai Law | Citizen Arrest
Thai Law | In many countries throughout the world there exists a law of citizen arrest, whereby a public citizen who has witnessed a criminal offence can in effect arrest the offender if there are no police officials nearby. I have been asked to clarify this law and what citizen arrest means in the provision of the Thai law. Technically a private person may not arrest any other person unless their assistance is requested by an official executing an arrest warrant or if an offender commits a flagrant offence that falls under the Schedule Annex in the Criminal Procedure Code of Thailand.
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A criminal offense is deemed flagrant when the offender is seen committing the offence or if they are found in a condition in which there is no doubt that the offence has just been committed by them. However offences specified in the Criminal Procedure Code Schedule Annex are deemed flagrant if the following conditions apply; the person is being pursued as an offender with hue and outcry or if they are found more or less immediately after the occurrence of an offence, in the immediate vicinity and also in the possession of items which have been obtained or used in the committing of the offense.
The offences in the Criminal Procedure Code Schedule Annex are as follows;
• Violence against the Royal Family
• Offences against the internal and external security of the state
• Violence against the friendly relations with foreign States
• Injuring a flag or emblem of a foreign State
• Offences against officials
• Escape of prisoners
• Offences against religion
• Riots
• Offences against public security, public communications and public health
• Counterfeit currency
• Rape
• Offences causing death
• Bodily harm
• Offences against liberty
• Theft
• Snatching, robbery, gang-robbery and piracy
• Extortion
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