CAT/OP/POL/CSPRO/1 aforementioned provisions, by the end of 2015 (by 7 months), the courts ordered electronic monitoring only in the cases of 28 persons sentenced to restriction of personal liberty, which means 4 convicted persons per month on average. 82. Another amendment of the Criminal Code and the Penal Enforcement Code (effective since 15 April 2016) restored the possibility of applying the electronic monitoring for the sentences of imprisonment up to 1 year and maintained previously applicable options to use the electronic monitoring in case of penal measures and preventive measures. Chart 1 Number of people under electronic monitoring from January 2015 to November 2017 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 20 4978 4969 4878 5013 4666 4736 4435 4552 4541 4551 4477 4488 4313 4323 4292 4399 4141 4129 3967 3933 3712 3660 3486 3478 3302 3175 3059 2978 2967 2850 2771 2595 2555 2525