Briefly, an interesting idea on increasing the quality of the police forces in developing countries.
Reading books fights police corruption?
In their struggle to keep poorly paid officers on the right side of the law Neza’s authorities are employing an unlikely weapon: literature. Earlier this year the municipal president, Luis Sanchez, launched an initiative aimed at making Neza’s policemen better citizens. One of its cornerstones is to stimulate reading among them. Although book groups and programmes to encourage reading in jails are not uncommon, this is one of the rare schemes aimed at the people in charge of law enforcement.
It is an intriguing idea, especially, as one suggests, the officers begin to read Sun Tzu. Overall, bringing the quality of law enforcement up will trickle down and up and across the entire spectrum of society. LE has a significant role as a point of contact and enforcement to prevent corruption and it must be one of the first places to get cleaned up.
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