Jean Redpath presenting the Soros Foundation Moldova Victimisation Survey Findings via video link in December 2010
The 2010 survey provides one of the first estimations of the extent of abuse of detainees and the extent of police failure to comply with human rights standards in Moldova. That 4 out of every 10 men detained experiences physical abuse or maltreatment is of serious concern. Reform of the police is urgent.
The backdrop to this police abuse is a pervasive climate of corruption in Moldova. The extent to which the 2010 survey shows ordinary officials from teachers to doctors to judges appear to have been involved in bribery in a single year (2009) is of grave concern. This report recommends that the judiciary be the primary target for the eradication of corruption. If the judiciary is credible, then there is a means of stopping the cycle of corruption.
View the presentation here.