At 13:00 hrs. Mr.Tharit Pengdit, Director-General, the Department of Special Investigations, briefed the press on the outcome of the meeting of the Center For Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) earlier in the day, gist as follows:

Following the operation to arrest protest leaders with arrest warrants and to reopen government agency premises at 5 protest sites -- the Government House compound, Government Complex, Democracy Monument, Ministry of Energy, and Ministry of Interior -- an integrated police force successfully reclaimed 2 areas, the Ministry of Energy and the Government Complex. At the Ministry of Energy, the police managed to arrest Mr.Rawee Maschamadol and Mr. Tossapol Kaewtima, leaders of the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) as well as 144 protesters, who will be detained at the Border Patrol Police headquarters in Pathumthani Province. At the Government Complex, authorities successfully pressed Luang Pu Buddha Issara and members of PDRC to reopen Chaeng Watthana Road and let the authorities resume their functions at the Government Complex. However, at Phan Faa Lilat intersection, some protesters used firearms -- including M79 rocket launchers -- against the police, leaving 1 officer severely injured.

The CMPO urged the Election Commission (EC) to file complaints against members of PDRC who had obstructed advance and general elections. The CMPO acknowledged that it had once requested the EC to do so but the latter had not yet proceeded. The Director of the CMPO will issue a letter asking the EC to proceed with filing complaints as soon as possible. So far, there are 160 cases involving election obstruction, 169 cases involving the failure of electoral officers to perform their duties, and 78 person already faced arrest warrants.