KUALA LUMPUR: The significance of integrity ought to be instilled from an early age, together with inside school settings, to arrange the longer term workforce for each personal and public sectors with a robust dedication to avoiding abuse of energy and corruption.
Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) chairman, Tan Sri Dr Ismail Bakar highlighted the necessity to combine integrity matters into school curricula, resembling civics, to stress the importance of non-public integrity in fulfilling obligations.
“While non-compulsory, integrating integrity training into the curriculum is a price-efficient means to domesticate this important worth. It hinges on our willingness to prioritise it.
Equally essential is parental steering in instructing youngsters proper from flawed, a elementary side for his or her upbringing,“ he stated when showing as a visitor on eNM TV’s ‘Ruang Bicara’ programme on the subject “Integrity in Enforcement: Building a Nation of Dignity” tonight.
Ismail emphasised the significance of reevaluating and strengthening the choice and appointment processes for public servants to make sure a complete integration of integrity reforms and to mitigate shortcomings within the public sector.
“It is essential to make sure that solely actually certified candidates are recruited into public service, particularly in enforcement businesses endowed with important powers for his or her every day operations.
“Sometimes, regardless of their spectacular tutorial {qualifications}, people might exhibit a special demeanor as soon as they assume their roles. Therefore, we must rigorously scrutinise the recruitment course of,“ he stated.
Yesterday, Ismail disclosed that the fee had obtained 176 complaints associated to misconduct this 12 months, with the bulk involving the Immigration Department (JIM).
He highlighted that amongst these 176 complaints, the first points included failures to take applicable motion, leading to complainants’ dissatisfaction (59 complaints), businesses not adhering to straightforward working procedures (37), abuses of energy (24), and cases of corruption (19).
