NCJ Number
124322
Journal
Police Studies Volume: 12 Issue: 4 Dated: (Winter 1989) Pages: 144-149
Date Published
1989
Length
6 pages
Annotation
The Philippine Commission on Immigration and Deportation (CID) was a prime example of a developing country corrupt agency, representing a public loss of approximately $2 billion per year in graft. The administrative reform of CID created an alien legalization program that earned revenues, prevented extortion from overstaying aliens, and regularized the status of the 500,000 undocumented aliens in the Philippines.
Abstract
The first management strategy of support mechanisms requires building a multi-tiered administrative bureaucracy. Incentive mechanisms include financial rewards, personnel moves, and written citations presented by the President. The third strategy, disciplinary mechanisms, consists of following administrative procedures leading to hearings and various penalties. Information dissemination in the form of publications, a newly designed Alien Registration Center, and educational courses for CID employees, were used to break the tacit conspiracy of confusion among corrupt employees. CID institutionalized its reforms through its policy of transparency, alien legalization program, proposed legislation, and computerization. However, the costs of the CID reform have been retaliation by disciplined employees, death threats, and confrontations with organized corruption syndicates. (Publisher abstract modified)