Coordinators and rapporteurs:

Tuesday, Wednesday, 9, 10 October 2001

We began by reversing our outcome and asking the question "How can we build a corrupt police force?". This provided a way of getting people to think about the problem in a different way. The ideas are listed below, in column 1.

We then re-reversed the ideas, thus identifying what could be done to build an honest police force - the results see below, in column 2.

Column 1	Column 2
Reduce supervision	Enhance performance review process Vetting processes Enhance leadership skills Define roles Increase effective supervisions training
Lower wages	Maybe increase basic pay
Cut down on regulations	Appropriate regulations which are clean and enforced
Encourage short cuts	Clearly defined procedures
Encourage inappropriate associations	Discourage associations, e.g. between police and judiciary etc.
Unaccountability	Make police accountable by public meetings
Change recruiting processes	Recruit differently (women, graduates and people from outside the culture of corruption)
Political control over police	Independent body to control police
No selection criteria	Clear and effective selection criteria
Remove internal vetting procedures	Vet new staff
Reward people inappropriately (e.g. by results etc.)	Consider quantitative measures Performance evaluation "Thank you's" such as commandations/promotion etc.
Tell people we are open to corruption	Give "top down" message Increase public awareness PR exercise
Reduce all levels of transparency	Increase all levels of transparency
Get new specialists To deal with new specialists	Increase professionalism via recruitment/training
Disempower police via autocratic leadership	Open channels for questioning/allowance for different skills and approaches