C.I.D. Training School
219. The C.I.D. Training School, situated in the former Aberdeen police station, provides courses of 12 wecks' duration for Inspectorate and Rank and File, including women police officers.
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Each course consists of a classroom phase, lasting four and a half weeks, and a practical phase of seven and a half weeks. During the classroom phase students receive lectures from police and guest lecturers, attend demonstrations and visit specialist units. In practical exercises, students investigate simulated cases from. the initial report to the determination of the case in court.
221. Since the school opened in April 1970, 854 students have received instruction, including officers from the Royal Brunei Police and Immigration and Prevention Service Inspectors.
CHAPTER 5
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General Review
Anti-Corruption Office
222. A total of 1,205 reports were received by the Anti-Corruption Office during the year. Of these, 1,159 involved complaints of corruption while the remainder contained no allegations of corruption and were referred to the appropriate departments for attention.
223. In May 1972 a Kowloon sub-office was opened in Ho Tung House, near the Star Ferry terminal. The new office makes it easier for residents in Kowloon and the New Territories, where a large percentage of the reports investigated by the Office originate, to lodge complaints.
224. The first successful prosecution under Section 9 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, 1970, was initiated in August 1972. The special powers of investigation provided by Section 13 and 14 were used four times and once respectively. The conviction rate for the year under review was 82.43 per cent as compared with 80.56 per cent for the previous year.
Procedures and Trends
225. The number of reports received showed an increase of 200 over that for the previous year. As in previous years
the greatest number of reports were contained in anonymous letters which constituted 53 per cent of all reports received.
226. However, the information contained in anonymous letters continued to be of minimal value. Only 8.5 per cent included sufficient information on which to base investigations. Many of the letters were obviously written with malicious intent.
Target Committee on Corruption
227: The Committee met 25 times during the year and considered 1,270 items.
228. The terms of reference of the Target Committee on Corruption are as follows:
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(a) To receive and consider, directly or through the Director of the Anti-Corruption Office (hereinafter called 'the Director'), all complaints of bribery, whether against Crown servants, public servants, or other persons.
(b) Subject to the statutory powers of the Attorney General, to instruct the Director as to which complaints
of bribery shall be investigated, and in what priority.
(c) To require from the Director reports, at such intervals as the Committee may decide, as to the actica
taken by his Office to investigate complaints of bribery.
(d) To report to the Governor, at such intervals as the Governor may require, on the work of the Office
and the incidence of bribery in the territory.
(e) To determine what information about complaints of bribery shall be passed on to the Establishmeat
Secretary, or to other government departments, or to other branches of the Police Force.
The exercise of the above supervisory functions shall not affect the responsibility of the Director for the manner in which the investigation of a particular complaint is carried out.
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