Police the 'most corrupt', survey found

comments     Claudia Theophilus     Published     Updated

The police force is ranked the most corrupt of all government agencies, according to a ground-breaking survey among local residents in Selayang, a suburb about six kilometres northeast of Kuala Lumpur.

In the survey of about 1,000 Selayang Municipal Council ratepayers, the police were deemed as 'highly corrupt' by 59.5 percent of the respondents.

The Road Transport Department came a distant second (19.6 percent), followed by the municipal council (7.3 percent), land office (5.5 percent), judicial office (1.1 percent), Health Department (0.7 percent), Environment Department (0.4 percent) and Fire Department (0.3 percent).

The study is conducted jointly by the Malaysian Institute of Management and the Kuala Lumpur Society for Transparency and Integrity in Selayang Baru and Bandar Baru Selayang, which have a population of 164,000 people.

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