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Talk given kad Hunter, 8(US) 2 to a seminar for sentor Police and ICAC officers on Thursday 29.3.79
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1) Ms Bitchie
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The theme of this seminar is the control of corruption in a modern society. This morning you are concentrating on control within the Civil Service by means of supervisory accountability and the Disciplinary Code enshrined in CRS, CSRs, departmental instructions and, in the case of the disciplined services, legislation, My subject is the Disciplinary Code which some people seem to view as the greatest single constraint on the control of corruption?
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I note that I am sandwiched between a speaker from the ICAC and one from the Police. This seems to
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have been my fate during the 21 years.
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On the one hand, I have had the ICAC pressing me to take disciplinary action against an officer and saying that any idiot (meaning me) can see from the case file that the officer is corrupt. On the other hand, I have had the department concerned telling me that I must be a fool if I think they can possibly recommend action when there is only suspicion of misconduct. And when other experts on discipline like the Chairman of the PSC put in their oar, I begin to feel rather battered. That is why I am appearing before you this morning heavily disguised behind false whiskers!
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what I vill do is to give you something of the background as the basis for/discussion in which I hope you vill help us to solve some of the problems we are Lov facing. Even if it does not, it gives me the opportunity to present my version of those problems to a captive audience of your senior officers. I find it difficult to convince them otherwise!
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I take it that you are familiar with the basic rules governing the conduct of civil servants. Civil servants are under a special obligation to ensure that their private interests are always subordinate to their public duty, that they do not use their official positions
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