Justice Needs To Better Manage Its Fight Against Public Corruption

Gao ID: GGD-80-38 July 24, 1980

In 1977, the Department of Justice designated public corruption, which are crimes by public officials, as one of the priorities among its law enforcement activities. Justice had already established the Public Integrity Section (PIS) as a focal point for coordinating its attack on public corruption.

GAO found that management and coordination of public corruption activities by PIS need to be improved. PIS needs to effectively plan public corruption efforts and develop accurate and comparable data on these efforts. The Economic Crime Enforcement Program (ECEP), established by Justice, is an attempt to further step up its attack nationwide on white collar crime and public corruption. The ECEP goal is to neutralize jurisdictional conflicts, coordinate intelligence, and focus specialized resources on all field aspects of white-collar crime. GAO found that this new endeavor is a step in the right direction and much better than its past system.

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