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Thailand, the Office of the Judiciary set 5 percent as an acceptable rate of

escape from EM bail. The result was also reassuring: of 6,267 imposed EM
bail, only 158 absconded, 2.52 percent. (The evaluation teamûs count included

44 absconders who were successfully rearrested into their calculation; if these

were calculated as non-absconding, the number of escapees would be 114 or
1.8 percent, a percentage comparable to the national money-bail rate, and

considerably lower than the 6 percent experienced by the 1998-1999 EM bail

pilot in England and Wales [Airs et al 2000:60]).

In terms of the cost per unit, the total cost for operating the EM bail

project was just over fl110 million Thai baht (about $3.5 million USD or
(3)
£2.6 million GBP) :fl80,880,000 for the cost of renting and maintenance of
EM devices and fl29,259,520 baht for the establishment of the EMC, setting

up the system, and hiring the EMC staff. If EM had been used for 5,000

offenders as planned, the cost per unit would have been fl22,028 baht ($694).
The decision to expand the use to more courts, which raised the number of

accused to the nearly 6,300 monitored in the pilot, brought the cost per unit

down to fl17,574 baht ($554).

EM devices were used for a variety of offenses, 67 discrete crimes in

all; more than one-third were narcotics cases, followed by offenses against

property, road traffic offenses, offenses against the person, and firearms acts.
Out of the 6,267 accused, the report showed that EM was mostly used at a

pre-trial stage; more than half were used as a stand lone condition without

any money bail required, and a quarter were used with reduced bail amounts
of less than fl100,000 ($3,150 USD).

(3)
At the time of writing, One British Pound Sterling is approximately 40 Thai baht and One
U.S. Dollar is equivalent to 32 baht.

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