Excessive Force of Police Power in Thailand: The Effect upon Human Right Violations

Abstract

This article examines the thesis that use of excessive force by police constitutes a human rights violation. Documentary analysis shows that the use of excessive force violates human rights, personal liberty and fundamental personal rights, as well as human integrity. Moreover, the excessive use of force by police is an abuse of police authority and constitutes noncompliance with procedural justice processes: for example, threatening and torturing suspects to force confessions in order to conclude a case, extrajudicial killing of suspects, and humiliating suspects in public.