14:16 30.01.2018

Corruption in State Border Service should be completely eradicated – Avakov

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Corruption in State Border Service should be completely eradicated – Avakov

Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov notes the need to eradicate corruption in the ranks of the State Border Service, noting that this directly affects the quality of the work of the department and the level of confidence in the population, the Liaison Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine has reported.

"You know how to make sure that people's trust is not 50%, but closer to 100%. This is a matter of corruption. The internal security service is working very well now. And we have a figure of 740 people. This is a lot even for such a big department. All heads must understand: if we fail to do this task, all positive achievements can be discredited by this fly in the ointment," Avakov said on Tuesday at the final board of the State Border Service of Ukraine.

The minister stressed that the population's trust is a factor that stimulates further development, and accordingly an increase in funding from the state budget.

According to him, the process of clearing the department of corrupt officials will last for a certain time. "We have to go through this period of cleaning and get rid of this habit saying that there is no place for corrupt officials. Let it be a year or three, but we have to put the appropriate filters and gradually move to the ideal. Then the already high level of confidence in the border guards will be even higher," said Avakov.

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