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CPIB should actively ENCOURAGE people to pay/ receive bribes to fight crime... Provided that they can at soonest occasion provide CPIB with evidence that a bribe was offered or taken AND there is reasonable chance of apprehending a corrupt culprit although baiting/ sting type actions would not qualify : e.g. one should comply with the corrupt agent by paying/ agreeing to pay/ receiving the requested bribe whenever sufficient evidence incriminating the bribe seeker/ offeror can be provided to CPIB.
CPIB should reward such informants providing sufficient information to secure convictions with at least 10% of the bribe offered/ the full bribe sum refunded as the case might be....
This is because in the case of convicting marine surveyor Syed Mostofa Romel, CPIB actually had to invent ship defects to arrest Romeo in a sting operation involving marked $bills: this is manpower intensive and costly considering that the ship surveyor was only sentenced to a measly 6months jail: tax payer $$$ could have been saved if the witnessing ship captain been trained and carried the appropriate recording devices/ knowledge on how to mark $bills: to capture the necessary incriminating evidence for submission to CPIB (thereby alleviating the need to organise complex and manpower intensive sting operations against corruption).
Failure to collect sufficient incriminating evidence or failure to report bribe payment for CPIB investigation would of course suggest that both parties in a bribe transaction are corrupt. CPIB however should mount a campaign about what sort of evidence is appropriate and provide a responsive reporting hotline. Examples of successful cooperations and convictions obtained should also be published: then only will people know that CPIB is indeed doing its proper job on tight budget.
Of course, those in doubt should always be encouraged to call CPIB first before proceeding (should upgrade to 24hrs hotline as current CPIB website does not say '24hrs hotline'), however, much time and resource would be saved if the public were trained to nab corrupt official through providing the relevant/ sufficient evidence to CPIB to take action.
CPIB should reward such informants providing sufficient information to secure convictions with at least 10% of the bribe offered/ the full bribe sum refunded as the case might be....
This is because in the case of convicting marine surveyor Syed Mostofa Romel, CPIB actually had to invent ship defects to arrest Romeo in a sting operation involving marked $bills: this is manpower intensive and costly considering that the ship surveyor was only sentenced to a measly 6months jail: tax payer $$$ could have been saved if the witnessing ship captain been trained and carried the appropriate recording devices/ knowledge on how to mark $bills: to capture the necessary incriminating evidence for submission to CPIB (thereby alleviating the need to organise complex and manpower intensive sting operations against corruption).
Failure to collect sufficient incriminating evidence or failure to report bribe payment for CPIB investigation would of course suggest that both parties in a bribe transaction are corrupt. CPIB however should mount a campaign about what sort of evidence is appropriate and provide a responsive reporting hotline. Examples of successful cooperations and convictions obtained should also be published: then only will people know that CPIB is indeed doing its proper job on tight budget.
Of course, those in doubt should always be encouraged to call CPIB first before proceeding (should upgrade to 24hrs hotline as current CPIB website does not say '24hrs hotline'), however, much time and resource would be saved if the public were trained to nab corrupt official through providing the relevant/ sufficient evidence to CPIB to take action.
