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Since its establishment in 2005, the Internal Affairs/Anti-Corruption Division of the Professional Standards Branch (PSB) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), has been successful in dealing with incidences of police abuse and professional misconduct swiftly and transparently.

In an interview with JIS News, Commanding Officer at the Division, Superintendent Dathan Henry, noted that the division's success was evident in the number of police officers who have been convicted for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act.

He pointed out that in 2005, some 35 members of the... Read more

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The Global Corruption Baromete

Introduction

TI's Global Corruption Barometer 2006 seeks to understand how and in what ways corruption affects ordinary people"s lives, providing an indication of the form and extent of corruption from the view of citizens around the world.

The Barometer 2006 presents the results of a public opinion survey of 59,661 people in 62 low-, middle and high-income countries. Now in its fourth round, the survey was carried out by Gallup International as part of its Voice of the People Survey, on behalf of TI, between July and September 2006.

Summary of results

Experience of bribery

The 2006 Barometer asked respondents about their contact with different service organisations and whether they have to pay bribes in their dealings with them. The resulting data allow analysis of the patterns of bribery, the sectors most affected in different parts of the world and the people who suffer most as a result of having to make these extra payments.

Which sectors are most affected by bribery?

Figure 1 shows that the experience of paying bribes differs greatly among the different organisations covered in the Barometer. The police are the organisation to which bribes are most commonly paid, taking into account the full sample.

This, viewed alongside the legal system and judiciary, which is the third most commonly affected sector, presents considerable concerns regarding corruption in processes of law enforcement. Registry and permit services are the second most commonly affected sector, with nearly one in 10 respondents who had had contact with the service reporting that they had paid a bribe.

Given that corruption in the police is shown as a major problem when we consider the aggregated responses of all 62 countries, it is interesting to see that the extent of corruption in the police force varies enormously when we break the analysis down into regional groupings. As can be seen in figure 2 below, only a small proportion of respondents from North America and the EU_ regional groupings have paid a bribe to the police. In comparison, more than half the

1 Tom Lavers was a member of the policy and research department at Transparency International.


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Respondents in Africa that had contact with the police in the past 12 months paid a bribe.

Between the two extremes, the other regional groupings present worrying levels of corruption in the police. In Latin America nearly one in three respondents who had contact with the police paid a bribe, and in the NIS, Asia-Pacific and South East Europe the figure varies between 15 and 20 per cent.Which regions are most affected by bribery?

African respondents to the Barometer indicated that they had, on average, paid more than two bribes each in the last year for access to services that should be their right, which is more than for any other region. The fact that more than one in two respondents in Latin America and nearly one in three in the NIS paid a bribe in the last year constitutes a major problem.

Despite the perception that corruption severely affects the organisations and spheres of life covered in the Barometer, the reported experience of bribery in the EU_ grouping and North America is relatively low, with fewer than one in 10 respondents having paid a bribe in North America and barely one in 20 in the EU_. A distinction, however, should be drawn between the different forms of corruption - the questions in the Barometer survey investigate facilitating payments paid for access to services, rather than the grand corruption that affects public.
 

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