Community service sentences up 30 percent from last Songkran period

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Community service sentences up 30 percent from last Songkran period

BANGKOK, 20 April 2016 (NNT) - The Director-General of the Probation Department has reported that during the Songkran festival, 5,600 individuals were sentenced to community service, a 30% rise from the same period last year.

Director-General Pol Gen Narat Sawetnarong revealed that the 5,600 cases consist of 5,228 drunk driving violations, 403 miscellaneous cases and 24 cases of reckless driving.

The number is an increase from last year by 1,177 or 30%. For cases of drunk driving that did not result in a traffic accident, the court will sentence violators to 20 hours of community service and will have to report themselves to their probation officer four times a year.

According to new laws, probation officers have been given more autonomy in prescribing community service work, which also includes assisting in hospital mortuaries. Pol Gen Narat affirmed that community service in the morgue does not constitute a violation of human rights, but serves as a firm punishment.

The Director-General also revealed that repeat offenders accounted for 5.18% of all cases this year. He said these individuals will be given harsher punishments at the discretion of the courts.


-- NNT 2016-04-20

[rkidlad]

And? I thought now you can choose where to do them.

[jaltsc]

"...5,600 individuals were sentenced to community service, a 30% rise from the same period last year."

Just to state the obvious. If community service was an effective deterrent, the offences committed to warrant them wouldn't be up 30% from the past year.

If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep having what you've always had.

Edited April 20, 2016 by jaltsc

[scorecard]

And? I thought now you can choose where to do them.

It would be interesting to know how many of the people just given community service in hospital morgues insisted on selecting the hospital and how many were allowed to do that.

In the future this could be nicely compared to the honda girl charade.

And please note it's two weeks since the authorities ordered an investigation of her insisting on selecting the hospital and an investigation of the actions of the probation officer involved.

The silence all round is deafening.

Disgusting.

[klauskunkel]

in other words: a 30% rise of manslaughter offences

(this is utterly untrue and of course sarcastic)

Edited April 20, 2016 by klauskunkel

[Nobb]

Khun Pm did you keep your promise to keep there cars for 30 days? How many scooters did they keep over two days? And what kind of fines did they have to pay? If you did not do with your so called laws on drunk drivers you failed just like last year. Your lips were moving but you did not enforce it!

[Nobb]

And? I thought now you can choose where to do them.

It would be interesting to know how many of the people just given community service in hospital morgues insisted on selecting the hospital and how many were allowed to do that.

In the future this could be nicely compared to the honda girl charade.

And please note it's two weeks since the authorities ordered an investigation of her insisting on selecting the hospital and an investigation of the actions of the probation officer involved.

The silence all round is deafening.

Disgusting.

This little rich Bit-h is worse than the Red Bull car killer. She shows no remorse and no sorrow for the people she killed. She should truly be in jail and not working a a morgue of her choice. She is one reason that Thailand will never be any thing better than a third world country.

[Nobb]

Thais do not pay for the helmet and speeding tickets. Do you really think they are going to appear for the jobs or just wait for some one to arrest them for there crimes. The backlog is so large that the might die before doing any services. The people do not respect the law and the PM and the police do not care. Why arrest them in the first place if you do not have the ba-ls to arrest them. Death and accident toil will be higher next year because of no respect for the law and no one enforcing it! The blood is on your hands Khun PM!

[Oziex1]

Is this because 30% more privileged A Holes are causing murder and mayhem.