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The Boston Police Department's handling of police misconduct allegations shows signs of slipshod investigations and unfair treatment of complaining witnesses, according to a report to be released today by an independent panel.
Of 19 individual cases of alleged officer misconduct that the department's civilian review board scoured, it recommended that five, or about 26 percent, should be reinvestigated because they either were not thoroughly looked into or because the citizens who lodged the complaints were treated unfairly.
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AllAfrica.com - Washington, US
12 December 2005
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Cameroon police top world corr
The 2005 world barometer of most corrupt institutions shows that the Cameroon police force is the most corrupt institution in the world. The ranking by Transparency International, TI, published on Friday, December 9, shows three other countries namely: Nigeria, Ghana and India on a bracket score of 4.7 on 10 respectively.
The world survey on most corrupt monitored thirteen institutions in 36 countries, where corruption thrives. These institutions include; political parties, parliament, the police, the judiciary, administration, private sector, customs, medical services, the media, education, public service, army, NGOs, state corporations and religious organisations.
While the police occupied the first position in Cameroon, and in the world, they are closely followed by customs, the judiciary and the Cameroon administration, none obtaining less than 4 on 10 score. The least corrupt in Cameroon are religious organisations that scored 2.0. The media scored 2.9.
Speaking at the British Council Library in Bamenda shortly after the proclamation of corruption results, the Northwest Chapter Coordinator of Transparency International, Simon Nkwenti, said the results reflect the daily realities in Cameroon. During the meeting attended by close to 40 NGOs and some religious organisations, a Coalition for Anti-Corruption Campaign in the Northwest was created.
Explaining why the Northwest TI and other NGOs in the coalition decided to demonstrate on December 9, "World Corruption Day," Nkwenti said, "corruption has eaten deep into every facet of Cameroon. Remember President Biya in 1987, refuted allegations that corruption was rife in Cameroon. He even asked for proofs. But you know on November 11 this year he acknowledged that corruption is everywhere in Cameroon urging Cameroonians to stand up and fight."
In a six-page presentation on Corruption and Development Aid, dispatched from Berlin by Transparency International, selected topics and proposed solutions on corruption were highlighted.
TI holds that significant corruption and poor governance in countries that receive aid are widely recognised as major obstacles to the realisation of development goals. Weak national integrity systems characterised by poor public financial management, a lack of political accountability, access to information about development strategies and civil society monitoring, according to TI, offer numerous opportunities for the misuse of aid resources by corrupt elites, public officials and others.
It noted that the siphoning of aid away from legitimate development objectives is often coupled with the mismanagement of domestic resources, and has debilitating effects on the development of a number of recipient countries.
"In Nigeria, for example, where two-thirds of the country's population live in abject poverty, it was recently estimated that the country's past leaders stole a total of GBP 220 billion between 1960 and 1999. During the same period, the country received substantial development assistance from both multilateral and bilateral donors and now owes almost GBP 20 billion in external loans," states the report.
TI Recommendations
TI proposes that all efforts to promote good governance and counter corruption should be an integral part of all development aid strategies. Such strategies, TI continues, should address not only the risk of corruption in recipient countries, but also the dangers of corruption within the development aid system itself.
Secondly, TI recognises that conditions-based approaches be an important means for promoting good governance and countering corruption. It also recognises that there are important distinctions to be made between different types of conditions in terms of their usefulness in countering corruption.
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It also believes that the process for arriving at governance conditions should be fully transparent and based on a two-way partnership between recipient and donor countries.
According to TI, all forms of development aid, from project funding to loans or debt relief, are potentially vulnerable to corruption, both on the part of the recipient and the donor country actors.
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