Cabinet hikes drug-related rewards, compensation rates

The Cabinet yesterday hiked the reward for drug-busting officials from Bt200 to Bt360, and the compensation for an official killed or seriously injured on duty to Bt300,000 from Bt200,000. 

Government deputy spokesman Pol Major Sansern Kaewkamnerd said the Cabinet had approved the PM’s Office proposal on rewarding drug-busters. The reward will be paid once the suspects are indicted or they go into rehabilitation, compared to the previous practice in which the reward was paid only if the suspect was indicted. 

 As for compensation to state officials injured on duty, Sansern said that those who lose an organ will get Bt200,000 instead of the old rate of Bt100,000, while those who sustain an injury that requires hospitalisation for more than 20 days would get Bt60,000 instead of Bt40,000. Those who are injured but do not need to be hospitalised will get Bt10,000 instead of nothing.