Training on Corruption Risks: Training for trainee prison officers

Contributed by the Ecole nationale d’administration pénitentiare Département Gestion et Management

For the first time, the AFA and the Ministerial Statistical Service for Internal Security (SSMSI) are jointly publishing a study on breaches of probity. This publication is part of the objectives of the National Multi-Annual Anti-Corruption Plan (PNPLC) 2020 to 2022, published on 9 January 2020. In France in 2021, the police and gendarmerie recorded 800 breaches of probity. Between 2016 and 2021, they increased by 28%, or an average of 5% per year.

These offences include corruption, influence peddling, illegal acquisition of interest, misappropriation of public funds, favouritism, and embezzlement. The increase in breaches of probity is linked in particular to corruption offences (+46% over the period), which account for almost a third of all such breaches. Public corruption accounts for 68% of these cases. Active bribery (17%) is slightly more common than passive bribery (12%). Other offences are often committed in conjunction with offences related to breaches of probity; half of these related offences involve fraud or deceit.

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