Action begins at 3.40Phnom Penh : Following the popularity of a public video which spread through facebook recently, involving two traffic police officers who have been charging money from foreign drivers who do not respect traffic lights. The two police officers demanded $ 20 in exchange for not sending the offender to the police sytation.
Colonel Sem Kunthea, chief of traffic police chief of Phnom Penh, said that on 2 May 2018, two traffic police officers who were responsible for disciplining the forces were temporarily suspended from Phnom Penh's Traffic Police Office.
Regarding the action, he asked the General Principal General Choun Sovann, the Deputy Chief of Police and the Phnom Penh Police Commissioner to apply the discipline of the National Police.
He added that the two traffic police officers had violated the national police force's "006" code, which had been overruled, and did not pay bills that harmed other police officers.
At present, the Phnom Penh Road Traffic Police Office of the Capital Police Commissariat has taken strict measures and temporarily suspended the officers, and has prepared case files for the proposal of the Deputy Chief of General Staff, Deputy Police Commissioner and the Police Commissioner of Phnom Penh .
In that time, HE Gen. said, adding that traffic police officers across the Capital has received encouragement and support from the King kraleahaom Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister , His Excellency General Dr. Security Neth Savoeun National Police Commissioner and the Governor of the Board of Phnom Penh , as well as instructions reminder Deputy High Commissioner General .
Overall, HE Deputy Commissioner General and the Police Commissioner of Capital not allowed to have the police officers who carried out or commit an offense contrary to the dignity , manners, ethics as a police officer .
The actions of the two police officers above HE further education can not recommend that HE is respect for lofty principles led by Samdech kraleahaom Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for General Security Dr. Neth Savoeun National Police Commissioner dismissed from the National Police Framework once .
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