Here is a short update by our Post reporters one-day way of the crackdown:
Police have caught 12 people hunting animated creatures in the popular Pokemon Go game while driving on main roads in Bangkok.
They were nabbed at the start of a police campaign to prevent accidents caused by careless drivers playing the game, acting city police chief Sanit Mahathavorn said Monday.
Eight of the 12 people stopped for allegedly violating the Land Transport Act which the use of a mobile phone while driving were caught on Sukhumvit Road.
Two others were stopped on Rama IV Road and the other two on Ramkhamhaeng Road, Pol Lt Gen Sanit added. Each driver was fined up to 1,000 baht, he said