Tougher penalties for people who flee after violating their probation
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Stronger punishments will be handed down to people who violate their probation after the Department of Probation found an alarmingly high number did so.
Of the some 300,000 people placed on probation after serving their sentence, more than 30,000 fled after violating their probation.
Department of Probation director-general Pol Colonel Narat Sawetanan said the figure was quite high, especially given there was average of 10 prison escapes each year per 300,000 prisoners.
Narat said social measure would be used in an attempt to intensively control probationers.
People who flee after breaking the terms of their probation cannot renew their driver’s licence, which the Department of Probation will coordinate with the Department of Land Transport.
They cannot be ordained a monk, with the measure to be coordinated with the National Office of Buddhism.
