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The department also offered free and confidential corruption prevention advisory service on 366 occasions to private organisations requesting assistance.

Community Education

The Community Relations Department educates the public against the evils of corruption and enlists their support for anti-corruption work through community- based and sector-oriented programmes as well as the mass media.

Under an Ethical Leadership Programme jointly organised with the Civil Service Bureau, the department held experience-sharing workshops to assist 150 Ethics Officers from 81 policy bureaux and departments in enhancing staff integrity management.

For the business sector, an integrity programme was introduced for small and medium enterprises, with the support of 60 chambers of commerce and trade associations. In collaboration with the Corruption Prevention Department, the department has drawn up a corruption prevention programme for the testing and certification industry.

Partnering with the Home Affairs Department, the Hong Kong Housing Society, District Councils and professional bodies, the department concluded a three-year campaign on clean

clean building management with the launch of a community programme and a corruption prevention toolkit on the daily operations of owners' corporations, in addition to earlier guidelines on building maintenance projects and financial management.

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In 2010, a pilot project was launched to include personal ethics in the university curriculum. A new network the 'i-League' comprising university students was formed to sustain the momentum in promoting integrity among peers on campuses and at workplaces.

The commission joined hands with the anti-corruption authorities in Guangdong and Macao to organise the first anti-corruption TV commercial competition for young people, attracting 7 000 tertiary and secondary students from the three places.

Checks and Balances

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The ICAC operates under a stringent system of checks and balances. Besides judicial supervision, the commission's work is scrutinised by four independent committees: the Advisory Committee on Corruption, the Operations Review Committee, the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee and the Citizens Advisory Committee on

on Community Relations. The committee chairmen hold a press conference annually to talk about their work in supervising the ICAC.

An independent ICAC Complaints Committee, chaired by a former member of the Executive Council and comprising legislators and prominent citizens, monitors the handling of non-criminal complaints against the ICAC and its officers.