About fifty percent of Vietnamese people say in a global survey that “accusations of corruption will eventually not make any changes”, while 37 percent blame police as the most corrupt institution in the country. About fifty percent of Vietnamese people say in a global survey that “accusations of corruption will eventually not make any changes”, while 37 percent blame police as the most corrupt institution in the country. They are part of the results of the Transparency International’s global corruption survey announced Tuesday. The survey, Global Corruption Barometer 2013, covers eight services: police, judiciary, registry, land, medical, education, tax and utilities and involved 114,000 people in 107 countries. In Vietnam, the survey polled 1,000 people in 15 provinces and cities from September 2012 until this March. Most of the Vietnamese respondents said corruption increased in the last two years and the efficiency of the fight against corruption reduced. Only 24 percent of the respondents said the government’s effort in anti-corruption was effective, and a small proportion of respondents said that corruption was unchanged or reduced. The survey found that 79 percent of the respondents said they are willing to get involved in the fight against corruption, while the global percentage is 87 percent. Commenting on the pessimism of many of the respondents about anti-corruption efficiency, law experts said that it is because the outcomes of the fight against corruption are lower than the public’s expectations. The survey recommends that Vietnamese people can make a difference in anti-corruption by resolutely stopping giving bribes and by refusing to take bribes. Yesterday the Hanoi Police released a report saying that that corruption has caused a total loss of about VND510 billion (US$24.2 million) in a period from October 1, 2010 to April 30, 2013, with corrupt acts seen the most in the fields of land, natural resources, construction, finance and banking.Police take the lead In the survey, 37 percent of the Vietnamese respondents said that police and land management was “extremely corrupt”, topping the list of corrupt levels in Vietnam. Meanwhile, 26 percent of the respondents named health services as extremely corrupt, while the corresponding rate is 21 percent for public administration, 19 percent for justice, 15 percent for education, 10 percent for business, 8 percent for politics, 8 percent for the army, 7 percent for National Assembly, 5 percent for the media, and 5 percent for non-government organizations. Specifically, on the 1- 5 scale set out in the survey, with 1 meaning not at all corrupt and 5 meaning extremely corrupt, the police ranked 4.0, followed by public officials/civil servants and healthcare sectors both at 3.6. Judiciary ranked fourth at 3.5 followed by the education system at 3.4. When asked about which kind of police to which respondents have most recently given a bribe, 90 percent said it is traffic police, eight percent said it is police in charge of household registration books and wards, and only 1 percent said it is economic police. In the two previous surveys, the Global Corruption Barometer 2010/2011, respondents still blamed the police force as the most corrupt institution in Vietnam.
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