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organisations on 539 occasions during the formulation of new policies, laws and procedures. Free and confidential advice was offered to private organisations upon request on 397 occasions.
To reinforce the anti-corruption message in the community, the commission collaborated with the Radio Television Hong Kong to produce a new TV drama series, ICAC Investigators 2011, adapted from real corruption cases. Each episode attracted an average of 1.18 million viewers. The drama series is scheduled to hit the Mainland TV in 2012.
The commission embraced new approaches to bolster integrity education targetted at young people. It developed personal ethics modules for tertiary students to explore solutions for ethical dilemmas encountered in real life, which had been incorporated into the learning programmes of seven TEIS. During the year, the ICAC Ambassador Programme continued to attract impassioned students ready to organise campus activities on their own for promoting positive values.
To foster regional exchanges, the ICAC joined hands with the Ministry of Supervision and the Commission Against Corruption of Macao to host a conference on civil service integrity in Hong Kong. Under the Ethical Leadership Programme jointly launched with the Civil Service Bureau, continuous training on staff integrity management was provided to 150 ethics officers from 81 policy bureaux and departments.
The commission also partnered with anti-corruption authorities in Guangdong and Macao to run a seminar to acquaint businessmen of small and medium enterprises with the latest developments in the Pearl River Delta Region and anti- corruption laws in the three places.
Checks and balances
Besides judicial supervision, the work of the ICAC is subject to the scrutiny of four independent committees the Advisory Committee on Corruption, the Operations Review Committee, the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee and the Citizens Advisory Committee on Community Relations. The committee chairmen host an annual press conference to account for their work in overseeing the ICAC.
An independent ICAC Complaints Committee, chaired by a member of the Executive Council and comprising legislators and prominent citizens, monitors complaints of non-criminal nature against the ICAC and its staff.
Government Laboratory
The Forensic Science Division of the Government Laboratory provides a comprehensive forensic service to the criminal justice system in Hong Kong. It has two operational groups, the Drugs, Toxicology and Documents Group and the Criminalistics and Quality Management Group.
The Drugs, Toxicology and Documents Group examined cases in three areas: