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Thursday, November 29, 1973

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 æd

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

faot 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."

Mr. Roberts said the term of service of the Commission's officere

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.

/Turning