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zachary harden
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![[Royal Thai Police Flag (Thailand)]](../images/t/th_polic.gif)
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image by Santiago Dotor and Eugene Ipavec, based on a photograph by Ya'ara Gutterman
I recently came back from Thailand. The same badge and inscription in police [station] signs is used as the police flag.
Ya'ara Gutterman, 21 Sep 2001
The photograph is quite dark, so that it is not fully clear whether the police badge is red, dark red or purplish red.
Santiago Dotor, 28 May 2003
The inscription on Santiago's somewhat blurry original reads "ทพักลายตรวจแกาะพื่พื่", (with a diacritical mark missing from above the very first character). I've matched the individual letters one-for-one, but have no idea of the line's meaning. It does not appear to read "Royal Thai Police," as one might expect – or, at any rate, the inscription is not identical to the one on the header of the police website, translated as "Royal Thai Police" in English directly below.
Eugene Ipavec, 25 Sep 2005
![[Royal Thai Police Ensign (Thailand)]](../images/t/th~polic.gif)
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image by Santiago Dotor and Eugene Ipavec, based on a photograph by Ya'ara Gutterman
I seem to remember that Police boats' ensigns are charged only with the emblem without the inscription.
Ya'ara Gutterman, 21 Sep 2001
![[Police Vessel Pennant (Thailand)]](../images/t/th~rtpol.gif)
image by Suttipong Phuensaen and Zachary Harden, 21 August 2018
As shown in Jane's Fighting Ships 2002-03, police vessels do not fly any of the police flags shown above. Instead they fly a dark red pennant with the national flag at hoist and the police badge at the centre. They also fly the national flag as their ensign.
Miles Li, 30 Jul 2004 and 27 July 2018
According to a translation I found of the 1979 Flag Law (original Thai
text here),
Section 41-6 gives the detail of the police pennant. The text reads as
follows: "(6) Marine Police Officer Flag which is isosceles triangle
shape where the base of the triangle being on the side of the flag
pole is 1 part wide; The flag is 3 parts in length, the 1 part out of
the 3 parts of the hoist part of the flag is of the same
characteristics and colours as the National Flag; and the 2 parts out
of the 3 parts of the fly part of the flag is in crimson; in the
middle of the flag, there are charges of Phra Saengdarb Khane and
shield in yellow."
Zachary Harden, 21 August 2018
There are three ranks that qualifies for using a personal flag to denote their office; General, Lieutenant General and Major General. Similar to the flags of the military, the personal flag consists of their insignia on a maroon field (similar to the main police flag). However, there can be more than one pattern for the same rank and designs are not specified in law to my knowledge.
Zachary Harden, 13 November 2018
Police air wings use the same marking as the Air Force with police emblem [above] on nose. See photo.
Dov Gutterman, 26 Jun 2003
An article in the
Daily Mail shows the "monkey police" - a monkey trained to assist the
police. He wears a police jacket emblazoned "Monkey Police" and on his shoulder
sports a national flag with a yellow map of Thailand over it - see this image
from
http://www.weirdasianews.com
Nachum Lamm, 9 March 2013