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 measures 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 the measure will be coordinated with the National Office of Buddhism. Narat said the office was concerned offenders had entered the monkhood and tarnished its reputation. Probationers who flee also cannot get a passport. That measure will be coordinated with the Foreign Ministry.
Narat has passed the policy to the directors of 105 probation offices around the country.
He wants probation system to benefit to society, with the policy implemented via the allowing measures creating a unique system for the country; a corruption-free zone; new thinking; using technology; proposing statistics; beginning integration; and coordinating arrests. All involved agencies are required to urgently enforce the policy to control probationers.