Corruptors of cricketers and matches are members of organised criminal gangs across the world who must be attacked globally in a joint effort and through joint partnerships, said the chairman of world cricket’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), Sir Ronnie Flanagan.
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He was speaking after a recent workshop by the International Cricket Council (ICC) ACU, also attended by the anti-corruption representatives of all the Test-playing Members. The anti-corruption officers discussed Integrity Working Party (IWP) recommendations, and expressed resolve to continue their fight to eradicating corruption through proactive, collective and, aggressive prevention and disruption tactics.
The ICC Board, during the 2015 ICC Annual Conference in Barbados, reviewed and adopted the recommendations of the IWP, which had been convened to review the global risks for international and domestic cricket created by the threat of corruption.
Sir Ronnie said: “The objective of our recent workshop was to bring together the anti‑corruption elements in all ten major Test‑playing cricket nations, and working together with the ACU at the center to examine the recommendations of the review report, to look at how we can best work together going forward to implement those recommendations, and to make sure that right across cricket.
“I was very pleased that the recent review we had of the work of the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit, placed great emphasis on the fact that the main planks of our activity are prevention, disruption, and only then investigation and prosecution, in that order of priority. And I think that order of priority is absolutely right.”
Sir Ronnie, a former Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) chief constable and Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, followed another senior UK policeman, Paul now Lord Condon, who set up the ACU.
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