I have just read today's Sin Ming with headlines of Traffic police under corruption investigation and charges.
In fact, there were 2 cases, one on traffic police chief ordering 5 of his people to lead a wedding poccession to Botanic Garden, then log in as patrol job. The whole possession is shown on Youtube.com.
The boss receives all expenses paid trip to Taiwan. His boss is also charged with receiving bribe in the form of a discounted tyre for introducing colleagues to buy tyres. He also has an all expenses paid trip to Taiwan.
The second case is a police officer alerting the boss of massage parlours of raids. In exchange he receives up to SGD7000 and 5 times of sexual services (in hotels and car parks).
Seems like LKY's perception of high pay means less corruption is not true. In fact the officers is not taking large sum of money. Obviously he has not study Economics before, which first lesson talked about human wants is unlimited. Evidence from the two cases that the highly paid civil servants are moved by small rewards as well, no need for large sum exchange.
The other thing is .... isn't this under Wong Kan Seng's Dream Team? First it is incompetency and complacency. Now it is up-graded to corruption, what surprise will Wong give us next?
If LHL insist that he cannot fire someone just because of one or two screw ups, it seems to me that these constitute to major flop on Wong's management. I wonder what would LHL say if people ask him about it?
In fact, there were 2 cases, one on traffic police chief ordering 5 of his people to lead a wedding poccession to Botanic Garden, then log in as patrol job. The whole possession is shown on Youtube.com.
The boss receives all expenses paid trip to Taiwan. His boss is also charged with receiving bribe in the form of a discounted tyre for introducing colleagues to buy tyres. He also has an all expenses paid trip to Taiwan.
The second case is a police officer alerting the boss of massage parlours of raids. In exchange he receives up to SGD7000 and 5 times of sexual services (in hotels and car parks).
Seems like LKY's perception of high pay means less corruption is not true. In fact the officers is not taking large sum of money. Obviously he has not study Economics before, which first lesson talked about human wants is unlimited. Evidence from the two cases that the highly paid civil servants are moved by small rewards as well, no need for large sum exchange.
The other thing is .... isn't this under Wong Kan Seng's Dream Team? First it is incompetency and complacency. Now it is up-graded to corruption, what surprise will Wong give us next?
If LHL insist that he cannot fire someone just because of one or two screw ups, it seems to me that these constitute to major flop on Wong's management. I wonder what would LHL say if people ask him about it?
