Corrections Department sacks 14 wayward officials

By The Nation

 

In a bid to keep the Corrections Department “clean, corruption-free and equal”, 14 officials found guilty of various wrongdoings were dismissed this week.

None have been publicly named.

 

They’d been caught collecting “protection money” from inmates, abandoning their duties for more than 15 days and being involving in phones being smuggled into prison.

 

Thirteen of the officials were sacked without pensions or other benefits. The other, who committed a less serious offence, was allowed to keep his pension.

 

The dismissal order came from the Corrections Department’s civil service committee after a meeting on Wednesday in Nonthaburi.

Director-general Pol Colonel Narat Sawettnan, who chaired the meeting, said the agency must maintain its “3 S” policy – sa-art, sujarit, samerpak – meaning “clean, corruption-free and equal”.

 

In abusing their authority, the 14 officials were guilty of breaching the civil service ethics code, he said, and must be punished to deter others from doing the same and to enhance the agency’s reputation and maintain public confidence.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30332957

 

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Why dismiss them, they are in the perfect place - when they turn up to work send them straight to Jail (without passing Go...)

Dont you just love the wording? "In a bid to KEEP the corrections dept CLEAN"   it aint clean and never will be, no corrections dept in the world is clean..so the chances here are somewhere between negative zero and positive zero..

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

None have been publicly named

Great news. Hopefully someone will employ them not knowing their history only to realise later they're a bunch of crooks. 

Edited December 1, 20178 yr by rkidlad

Low ranking scapegoats no doubt....

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thirteen of the officials were sacked without pensions or other benefits.

Should have followed a career in the police force instead of the corrections department. 

I am sure being moved to an 'inactive' post would be a preferred punishment.