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Police chief reinstated
BELCHERTOWN - Selectmen reinstated Francis R. Fox Jr. as police chief yesterday after five months of paid administrative leave but voted to place a letter of reprimand in his file, spelling out what he did wrong when he ran self defense courses in town buildings.
Fox, who has been a Belchertown police officer nearly 20 years, said last night he will be on the job again this morning.
"I am ready. The uniform is pressed," he said after the 90-minute open hearing ended.
"I have a lot of things I want to accomplish. I want to get started," he s... Read more
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AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
22 August 2007
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Kenya: Once Again, Police Tops
For the sixth year running, the Police Force is still Kenya's most corrupt institution. The force has, however, for the first time been joined in the top 10 most corrupt by lawyers and constituency development fund (CDF) committees.
Parliament, which has not been featuring in the Transparency International (K) Bribery Index first published in 2001, has been ranked 13 out of 41 worst institutions when it comes to corruption.
The findings for 2006 show the Transport Licensing Board as second to Police, followed by public universities and colleges as bribery-prone institutions.
Local authorities
Also in the top 10 are the Immigration Department (4), Ministry of Local Government (5), Public Works (6), civic authorities (7) and the Ministry of Labour (10).
CDF offices and lawyers were ranked eighth and ninth respectively. Mombasa and Nairobi councils, the Registrar of Persons, the Kenya Revenue Authority and the Kenya Commercial Bank which featured in 2005 ranking exited from the latest rankings.
Forty one organisations, up from 33 in 2005, featured in the index released in Nairobi yesterday by TI (K) interim chairman Richard Leakey and researcher David Ndii.
Although police still topped the ranking, which captures corruption experienced by citizens in their interaction with officials of both public and private organisations, it registered an improved score of 46.6, down from 60.3 in 2005.
"In addition, the gap between the police and the second worst ranked organisation has narrowed from 90 per cent to 30 per cent," says the report.
Dubbed Kenya Bribery Index 2007, the report adds that police ranked worst in only two of the six indicators used to measure corruption, down from four in 2005.
Police improved when Narc came to power, when, said Dr Ndii, citizens "arrested" officers found taking bribes, only for corruption in the force to increase in 2005.
The entry of CDF was inevitable as it is now the biggest spending unit at local level, says the report, while the entry of Parliament is also associated with influence of MPs over resource allocation decisions, including CDF and bursary funds.
The survey saw 2,399 respondents in all eight provinces interviewed, 53 per cent of them from rural areas.
More than 54 per cent of the respondents were under 30 years, 32 per cent between 30 and 45 and 14 per cent were above 45.
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