Suwon Receives Top Grade in Anti-Corruption Assessment by Corruption Prevention and Civil Rights Commission

Suwon announced on the 19th that it received the highest grade of Grade 1 in the '2013 Public Institution Integrity Assessment' conducted by the Corruption Prevention and Civil Rights Commission.

The Corruption Prevention and Civil Rights Commission's integrity assessment of public institutions was conducted based on internal measurements targeting civil servants and external measurements through surveys of the general public. The general public survey targeted those who had received civil complaint services exercised by public institutions in a superior position, such as permits and approvals for projects and loans, and subsidies.

The Commission calculated the average comprehensive integrity score by applying deduction factors including internal and external measurements and policy customer evaluations, as well as the occurrence of various corruption incidents such as bribery and embezzlement of public funds and acts that undermine public trust.

The assessment results are displayed in 1-5 grades along with scores by evaluation item. Grade 1, the highest rating, indicates the highest level of integrity, and as the number increases, integrity decreases.

Suwon implemented a zero-tolerance policy toward corrupt public officials and conducted an intensive anti-corruption integrity drive including the one-strike-out system for officials with misconduct, expanded integrity assessments of high-ranking officials from Grade 4 to Grade 5 or higher to improve internal integrity, personnel measures for vulnerable departments based on integrity assessment results, and strengthened internal whistleblower systems.

In particular, the city implemented various policies to improve integrity including ▲three-strike-out system for drunk driving offenses detected three times ▲operation of real-time monitoring systems such as the Chungbaek-e system and integrity investigation system ▲establishment of an Integrity Team (2012) ▲expanded operation of civilian auditors (32 members), operation and awards of integrity mileage programs ▲integrity education and consulting ▲visitor civil complaint integrity surveys and other initiatives.