Police will guarantee the safety of fugitive crime boss Chavalit Thongduang, 37, who escaped from official custody in Nakhon Si Thammarat province last month, if he decides to turn himself in, National Police chief Pol General Torsak Sukwimol said on Thursday.

As the manhunt continued on Sunday for two drug inmates who escaped from a provincial prison in Sukhothai on Saturday evening, the Corrections Department chief has given the prison director 48 hours to re-capture them or face a transfer.