WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1988
24
YEAR OF CONTRAST FOR ICAC
THE YEAR 1987 WAS ONE OF CONTRAST IN STATISTICAL TERMS FOR INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION AS THERE WERE FEWER OF CORRUPTION OVERALL AND YET THE OFFENCES ROSE BY 86 PER CENT TO 514, DR THE HON THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
NUMBER
THE
REPORTS OF PERSONS CHARGED WITH DANIEL TSE SAID IN
CORRUPTION, WAS
DR TSE, CHAIRMAN OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TABLING THE 1987 ANNUAL REPORT BY THE ICAC COMMISSIONER.
HE SAID THAT 2,299 REPORTS OF CORRUPTION WERE RECEVIED IN 1987, WHICH WAS 11 PER CENT FEWER THAN IN 1986.
1,068 CORRUPTION REPORTS
YET THE ICAC'S CASELOAD AND THE INVOLVING THE PRIVATE SECTOR WERE THE HIGHEST EVER.
MR TSE SAID THE ANNUAL REPORT ALSO WELCOME REDUCTIONS IN CORRUPTION REPORTS AGAINST REPORTS, AND AGAINST OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS
SHOWED THAT THERE WERE
THE POLICE
624 REPORTS.
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BOTH OF THESE FIGURES WERE 15 PER CENT BELOW THE FIGURES IN 1986.
THE COMMISSION HAD CONTINUED ITS CORRUPTION, HE SAID.
536
CORRESPONDING
THREE-PRONGED ATTACK ON
INVESTIGATED COMPLAINTS
UNDER THIS, THE OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT OF CORRUPTION AND OTHER OFFENCES WITHIN THE COMMISSION'S JURISDICTION, AND THE CORRUPTION PREVENTION DEPARTMENT PROCEDURES SO AS TO REDUCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CORRUPTION.
EXAMINED PRACTICES AND
THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS DEPARTMENT EDUCATED THE PUBLIC EVILS OF CORRUPTION.
OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT,
AND SUCCESSFUL
ON THE
ON THE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT HAD ANOTHER BUSY
DR TSE SAID THE INVOLVED IN A NUMBER OF PROTRACTED CORRUPTION-BASED INVESTIGATIONS.
YEAR, AND WAS HEAVILY
CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
PARTICULAR SIGNIFICANCE, HE SAID.
HAD BEEN OF
"FOR EXAMPLE, ONE NOTABLE CASE BANK IN WHICH AFTER 16 MONTHS OF
CONCERNED THE OVERSEAS TRUST JOINT POLICE AND THE ICAC, THE MAIN PART OF THIS ENQUIRY WAS CONCLUDED
EFFORT BY OFFICERS OF THE ALL THE FOUR MAJOR OFFENDERS WERE SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED FOR HE SAID.
AND
FRAUD,
I
/HE ALSO