BUCOR RANKS 6TH AMONG TOP IDAP AGENCIES AWARDEES

    Under the government agency category, the Department of Public Work and Highways (DPWH) got 3rd Place, nobody qualified for the 2nd place, and the Department of Social Welfare & Development (DSWS) was awarded 1st Place. Whereas, the top three awardees under the Government-owned Corporation category were awarded to the National Irrigration Administration, 3rd place; National Housing Authority (NHA), 2nd place; and Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP), 1st place.

    Secretary Constancia P. de Guzman of the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) personally gave the recognition award to USEC OSCAR C CALDERON.

    IDAP contains 22 Do-Ables: for Prevention (7), for Deterrence (7), for Education (4), and for Strategic Partnership (4) that needs to be properly accomplished as the agency’s corruption safeguards particularly in the area of frontline services / transactions with the public and in agency – specific critical functions, such as quasi–judicial functions and service delivery, most vulnerable to corruption.

    The BuCor is committed to the IDAP in relation to the government’s mission to adopt a stronger anti–corruption measures, wherein all the Penal Superintendents and Chiefs of Divisions under BuCor were directed to comply and monitor the progress of their assigned tasks using the given IDAP indicators as parameters. We have to recognize the need for collaborative efforts among BuCor officials in order to maintain and further improve our ranking in the IDAP. We need not be contented of what is good enough. We need not just be compliant, but come up with best results. We have to deliver and continue monitoring for results until we see that corruption in BuCor is minimized, if not totally put to an end. We therefore should aim for best positive results. (Supt. Catalino A. Malinao, The Philippine Corrections Journal)