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the Electronic Monitoring Bail Projecté (hereinafter ùthe reportû), focuses on

three dimensions of evaluation: effectiveness, efficiency, and impact. The
primary aim of the evaluation, according to the law, was actually quite narrow

in scope: deciding whether to charge the accused for the cost of EM.

Effectiveness

The evaluation team measured effectiveness by the number of accused

upon whom were imposed EM as a bail condition; the number of those who

complied with the condition and those who absconded; and the imputed
savings to the overall bail system, calculated per unit. Firstly, the team

focused on the number of devices used. The program had contracted for 5,000

devices, and had set as a goal usage of all 5,000 within the period of the

project. The result exceeded those hopes: by December 2018, two months

before the conclusion of the pilot, the initial inventory of devices had been
used 6,276 times, for 6,267 accused, 125.52 percent of the goal. The high

rate of usage would not have been possible without the decision to expand

the project from 23 to 164 courts. To get a comparative picture of how
extensive was the use of EM bail in Thailand, over the eight months of the

project a single criminal court in Bangkok ordered more than 700 accused to

wear ankle monitors; in contrast, between 2005 and 2008, the whole of

Scotland used only 235 EM devices in its EM bail pilot (Graham and McIvor

2015:27).

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According to the 2017 official Thailand judicial statistics , 217,495
accused were granted bail and 3,467 or 1.61 percent were deemed to have

absconded. When introducing EM as a bail condition for the first time in

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The population of Thailand was 69.04 million at the end of 2017.

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