Central Registry for Integrity and Declared Assets

 The unit plays a supportive role in DCEO Operations Units, mainly Financial investigations, Asset Recovery, Public Education and Corruption Prevention, and Corporate Governance. The Unit is now subdivided into four mainstreams: Asset Declaration Management, Monitoring and Law Enforcement; Compliance and Investigations, Safety and Security Management.

Fitting into DCEO value chain with added new mandate                                                          

The Unit provides assets and financial information intelligence to speed up investigation and ease assets tracing and recovery. It also performs integrity audits and physical inspection on the Ministry’s and Department’s processes and systems. The aim is to investigate suspicions of deliberate acts of commission or omission, it carries out verification on declared content, carries out screening / vetting of staff and conducts lifestyle audits on reported allegations of corruption. Lastly, it monitors the Safety and Security of DCEO personnel and property including exhibits.

CRIDA MANDATE

1. Asset Declaration Management

(preventive strategy addressing 2 corrupt behaviors) (COI and IE)

• Notifies filers of declaration times
• Monitors submission compliance
• Checks files for completeness and accuracy
• Maintains an administers registration of filers
• Manages record of filers (database)
• Sensitization on Declaration of Assets to all stakeholders (identify crucial stakeholders)
• Liaises with Enforcement for submission breeches
• Responds to technical inquiries
• Offer technical support and training on filling forms
• Advocacy on COI
• Public consultations through medium
• Prepares annual/quarterly reports
• Publication of declarants after declaration times

2.Monitoring and Law Enforcement 

(Review of submissions to detect and punish wrongdoing)

• Reviews individual forms to detect irregularities
• Tracks changes in assets accumulation to determine suspicious wealth that can be attributed to unexplained sources of income
• Cross check declarations with external sources of information and databases
• Analyze declarations for potential incompatibilities
• Determines methods of verification basis besides public complaint mechanism
• Collaborates with Investigation and Assets Forfeiture units for assistance and information sharing (collaboration with other BU)
• Identifies red flags with report center to trigger verification process based on public complaints and ponder on prevention interventions even before investigation kicks on.

3. Compliance and investigations

(a) Code of conduct management

• Sensitize and provide guidance on compliance with ethical laws and regulations, serves as the organization’s internal control point for misconduct and improprieties, allegations, complaints.

(b) Internal and external investigations

• Investigate external and internal reports on allegations of criminal/civil and ethical misconduct of staff. (EIC)

© Ethical and Integrity audits

• Conducts integrity audits and physical inspection functions in government department’s systems and processes for compliance, offers advice and recommendations on bridging possible gaps as well as enforcing the law on suspected intentional omissions or commissions of criminal acts perpetrated by and in collusion with public officials.
• Conducts lifestyle audits (staff and suspects),
• Screening and vetting. (DCEO employees/ state organs employees on request, contractors, companies and vendors who have shown interest in provision of goods and services to DCEO/ state organs and will have access to classified information).

4.Safety and Security Management

• Draws Security policy and recruitment of DCEO permanent Security personnel to minimize private Security exorbitant costs.
• Uses a standard methodology to determine and prioritize security risk through the analysis of threat, vulnerabilities, and impact, implementing appropriate and economical risk management approach that will reduce risk to as low as reasonably practicable.
• Oversees all safety concerns of the Directorate; protection of Directorate’s property, exhibits, protection of information, crime prevention, access management and mitigation of possible attack on employees and everyone inside the perimeter as well as DCEO perimeter protection.