Public Service Division mulls tighter rules on casino visits for wider civil service

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[h=2]The Public Service Division (PSD) is reviewing if tighter rules with regard to visiting casinos should be put in place for the wider civil service. This is to reduce the risk of public officers incurring debts from gambling.[/h]

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SINGAPORE: The Public Service Division (PSD) is reviewing if tighter rules with regard to visiting casinos should be put in place for the wider civil service.


This is to reduce the risk of public officers incurring debts from gambling.


This week, CPIB assistant director Edwin Yeo Seow Hiong was charged with misappropriating S$1.7 million.

Yeo was also charged with using some S$241,000 of what he had allegedly misappropriated to gamble at Marina Bay Sands casino.


Tighter rules could apply to civil servants who work in areas where there may be potential conflict of interest, or where there may be a high risk of them being exploited.


Currently, restrictions apply to officers who have direct dealings with the casinos.


For example, officers with the Casino Regulatory Authority and police officers dealing with enforcement matters related to casinos are banned from visiting casinos in Singapore, except for official reasons.


But it is not a blanket ban for all police officers.


Police officers involved in general law enforcement work are only required to declare their casino visits within a week.


Any new guidelines will be included in the PSD's code of conduct for civil servants.


- CNA/xq

 

[Narong Wongwan]

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No need wayang like the casino levy.
Got the resolve then impose carpet ban.

 

[streetcry]

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[h=1]Most corruption & financial crime cases in civil service involve junior frontline officers: study[/h]
[h=2]Most cases related to corruption and financial crimes within the civil service involve junior frontline officers. This is according to a study conducted by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB).[/h]

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SINGAPORE: Most cases related to corruption and financial crimes within the civil service involve junior frontline officers.
This is according to a study conducted by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) of public officers investigated over the past five years.


The study was commissioned by the Prime Minister's Office after a spate of high-profile cheating and corruption cases involving civil servants.


The aim is to assess if there had been changes in the number of officers investigated and to understand the profile of these officers as well as the characteristics of their cases.


Most of the officers investigated are men.


Almost half had educational qualifications of O-Level and below.

51 per cent of those investigated were from enforcement units.


These included frontline officers from the Home Team, the Housing and Development Board, the National Environment Agency and the Manpower Ministry.


Money was the most common form of gratification, which accounted for 65 per cent of cases.

Sexual favours accounted for 12 per cent of cases.


A combination of money and sexual favours accounted for about 5 per cent of cases.

40 per cent of the monetary gratification or reward involved sums of less than S$1,000.


Those involving larger sums of more than S$30,000 accounted for nearly 20 per cent of cases.


The study though showed that the number of cases involving public officers has remained low and fairly stable over the past five years.


The number of cases opened by the CAD involving public officers during that period was about one to three a year, out of the more than a thousand or so it handled annually.


About one in five cases investigated by the CPIB involved public officers.

Most cases were reported by officers within the civil service and by public agencies and its officers.


About two-thirds of the investigations involving public officers led to prosecution or disciplinary proceedings.

For cases where no action was taken, these included cases where public officers were exonerated or that the results of investigations were inconclusive.




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[watchman8]

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Why only ban for civil service? Civil servants are weaker than private sector in terms of abili to resist gambling?

Or private sector employees can die, their business, but civil servants too talented and precious, hence must protect them from casinos?

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

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Corruption stems from the mind.

Ban casino in Sg, still can go Malaysia to gamble.

 

[halsey02]

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Corruption stems from the mind.

Ban casino in Sg, still can go Malaysia to gamble.

They must revise the civil servants pay & benefits, it is obvious that they are underpaid for corruption to happen & oversex for some too. The badly need a moral compass too.

 

[Dreamer1]

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Fat hope,PM Lee and PAP(Play and Play) will suffer for their fucking sin-ruin many families.

 

[Leongsam]

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Most of the officers investigated are men.


Almost half had educational qualifications of O-Level and below.

As expected, it is the peasant stock with low IQs that are source of the majority of Singapore's problems.

 

[scoobydoo]

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hmm, should include Geylang.

 

[po2wq]

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[h=1]Most corruption & financial crime cases in civil service involve junior frontline officers: study[/h] ...

not surprising ...

ah loon oni paid himself n his jingang fat salaries n suppress wage growth 4 ze last 10 yrs ... junior frontline officers haf bcum grossly underpaid ... lidat how not 2 seduce dem 2 currupt? ...

 

[winnipegjets]

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Cases involving senior public servants seldom surface lah ...because everything is deemed Official Secret.

 

[kopiuncle]

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Corruption stems from the mind.

Ban casino in Sg, still can go Malaysia to gamble.

this is absolutely brilliant
i support your mantra

 

[Confuseous]

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Proposed regulations such as these simply implicate that those in the public service are weak, not capable of self-control, and need a whip to keep them in place.
It is an insult to 99% of them who have no such issues.
For the govt to declare such rules is akin to saying that ocassionally aeroplanes crash, so let's ban aeroplanes.
What Shanmmugan has to say will be revealing - that you can have all the best systems and rules in place, there will still be those who stray?

 

[Tuayapeh]

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A ban of all public servants from the casinomsis the right thing to do....just like how Macau does it for all their civil servants....


Or why not just go one up and protect thepeople of sinkapore like Monaco.... No citizens allowed into any casino.....

 

[kopiuncle]

Re: Public Service Division mulls tighter rules on casino visits for wider civil serv

A ban of all public servants from the casinomsis the right thing to do....just like how Macau does it for all their civil servants....


Or why not bo one u and protect thepeople of sinkapore like Monaco.... No citizens allowed into any casino.....

i totally agree
TOTAL UNCONDITIONAL BAN

 

[Tuayapeh]

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Eh kopi dun mean to be sarcastic but you can wait long long.....



More likely they are gonna open up a 3rd and then 4th immediately after 2016........

 

[jw5]

Re: Public Service Division mulls tighter rules on casino visits for wider civil serv

Proposed regulations such as these simply implicate that those in the public service are weak, not capable of self-control, and need a whip to keep them in place.
It is an insult to 99% of them who have no such issues.
For the govt to declare such rules is akin to saying that ocassionally aeroplanes crash, so let's ban aeroplanes.
What Shanmmugan has to say will be revealing - that you can have all the best systems and rules in place, there will still be those who stray?

There's a "serious" problem with their values and mentality. It has now become very "serious". They need to look at it "seriously".

 

[Tuayapeh]

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There's a "serious" problem with their values and mentality. It has now become very "serious". They need to look at it "seriously".

Whatdo you think???

 

[Confuseous]

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There's a "serious" problem with their values and mentality. It has now become very "serious". They need to look at it "seriously".

Seriously, the way these guys in the civil service is responding is worse than some SMEs in Bukit Batok flatted factories. Knee jerk reactions such as these will create other problems down the road. Are staff in the CPIB more likely to visit the casinos? What happens when there is embezzlement because the officer needs money to pay for his mother's cancer treatment fees? Does the means justify the 'noble' end?

The issue here is EMBEZZLEMENT and BAD SUPERVISORY MANAGEMENT, not the Casinos!

Public service management landscape here is really scary.

 

[GoldenDragon]

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The issue here is EMBEZZLEMENT and BAD SUPERVISORY MANAGEMENT, not the Casinos!

Public service management landscape here is really scary.

Agree with you. Need not go to the casinos, expose yourself to all. Can always bet on baccarat even from home. SBOBET, IBC etc. These betting sites are more destructive. Can bet on credit. PSC can come up with all measures to deter its officers from going to the casinos but there will not solve the problem. Sometime in the near future, after measures are implemented, we will have another similar case. Question is when, who, which department and $$$ CBTed.