APEC Economic Leaders’ Week will start in a little under two weeks. Thai authorities and the national police have announced a series of precautions to be taken during the event.
For the next APEC Economic Leaders’ Week (ALEW), which begins on November 14, the Royal Thai Police and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) have planned a series of security and traffic control measures. With the heads of 21 different Asia-Pacific economies likely to gather in Bangkok for the most crucial APEC meetings of the year, the ALEW is one of the most significant international gatherings Thailand has held in years.
Major security measures were considered at a meeting presided over by Royal Thai Police Commissioner General Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas and Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt in advance of Leaders’ Week.
More than a hundred more security cameras will be set up at strategic points in and around the meeting and hotel locations of the event’s leaders and attendees. Agencies concerned with responding to emergencies and transporting political and economic elites have been practicing these procedures.
Security authorities have been keeping a tight eye out for any suspicious activity that may occur during the ALEW, and they have urged BMA municipal law enforcement officials, merchants, and public transport drivers to report anything out of the ordinary.
Trains on the MRT Blue Line will not stop at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center from November 16-19, and sections of Ratchadaphisek Road will be closed off, so attendees should plan accordingly if they plan to travel about Bangkok during that time. We will provide for alternate modes of transportation.
