Suwon Designated as Excellent Corruption Prevention Policy Organization for Six Consecutive Years

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Suwon was announced on the 29th to have received Grade 1 in the '2019 Corruption Prevention Policy Evaluation' overseen by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, being designated as an excellent organization (Grades 1 and 2) for six consecutive years.

The city scored 85.1 points out of 100 and was classified as Grade 1 in the evaluation of basic municipal governments (20 organizations) with a population of 500,000 or more in the '2019 Corruption Prevention Policy Evaluation.' This is 7.9 points higher than the average score (77.2 points) of the evaluated basic municipal governments.

Among the 20 basic municipal governments, five local governments including Suwon, Hwaseong City, Changwon City, and Seoul's Gangnam-gu and Songpa-gu received Grade 1.

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission's Corruption Prevention Policy Evaluation was conducted targeting 270 organizations including central government agencies, metropolitan governments, basic municipal governments with a population of 500,000 or more, educational government bodies, and public sector-related organizations.

Grades 1 through 5 are assigned through comprehensive evaluation of 30 indicators across five sectors: ▲Anti-corruption initiative planning ▲Creation of integrity ecosystem ▲Securing effectiveness of corruption control ▲Expansion of results in clean administration and clean business operations ▲Operation of corruption prevention systems.

The city was highly evaluated for operating the 'Integrity Citizen Inspector System,' 'Anti-corruption and Integrity Education,' 'Suwon Regional Integrity Cooperative Body,' 'Civil Servant Code of Conduct,' and implementing the 'Integrity Social Covenant.'

Kwon Jin-woong, Suwon's Auditor, said, "We will complement areas that received relatively lower scores in the corruption prevention policy evaluation," and "We will make Suwon a 'city with the highest integrity.'"