Police move to scrap cash rewards for traffic finesBy The NationThe Royal Thai Police are considering stopping cash rewards for traffic police for collected traffic fines and will instead give them an overtime allowance, a senior police officer said on Saturday. Ekkarak said that at present a traffic policeman whose rank is below lieutenant colonel is entitled to a share of traffic fines up to Bt10,000 a month. Ekkarak said his committee decided to stop giving cash rewards to traffic policemen and change to an overtime system of Bt50 per hour. Currently, 50 per cent of traffic fines are sent to local administrations and five per cent is sent to the Finance Ministry as national revenue. Ekkarat said his committee has yet to study whether a fund should be set up to manage the 45 per cent of fines to recovered by the Finance Ministry.

Source: The Nation Bangkok June 01, 2019 05:26 UTC