The Department of Probation has ordered 3,000 more ankle monitors as an alternative to jailing offenders.
After 200 devices were tested to monitor drunken driving offenders, the ankle monitors will also be used in domestic violence cases to keep attackers away from their victims, according to Director-General Ruenwadee Suwanmongkol.
A pilot project which put drunk drivers under house arrest from 10pm to 4am for seven days was completed in Bangkok and the metropolitan area in March. Wearing an ankle monitor was deemed a successful substitute for months of probation.
The ankle monitors have been used on 162 drunken drivers, 10 physical abusers, and two drug users. No one has attempted to destroy the devices, Spring News reported.
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