 Gen Sonthi also promoted his classmates and lieutenants in the coup, 1st Army Region Commander Lt-Gen Anupong Paochinda and 3rd Army Region Commander Lt-Gen Saprang Kalayanamitr, to the post of Assistant Army Commander.On 22 September, the Council gave Police General Kowit Wattana absolute power over all police matters.He was also made chair of a new National Police Commission, the membership of which had not yet been announced.