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Thursday, November 29, 1973
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An Operations Division, responsible for the
investigation and prosecution of offences.
A Preventive and Administrative Division to
deal with the prevention of corruption,
principally by advice or the adoption of
procedures which are likely to reduce the
opportunities for corruption; and
A Community Relations Division to involve the
public in the fight against corruption through
education, publicity and by influencing public
opinion.
The Ordinance under which the Commission will be formally con-
stituted, he went on, will place the Commission directly under the control
and direction of the Governor.
"These measures should make it clear that the Commissioner and
his staff are intended to be free from the departmental and inter-departmental
pressures to which members of the public service may be liable and are in
fact independent of the government, though subject to the control of the
Governor.
"In this way we wish to demonstrate yet again, that the government
means to tackle corruption relentlessly."
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Mr. Roberts said the term of service of the Commission's officers
would also be subject to the Governor's approval, and it was intended that
these terms should be kept roughly in line with those of the public service.
In order to preserve the rights to pensions and gratuities of
those public servants serving with the Commission, steps would have to be
taken to ensure that their career prospects did not suffer, he said.
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