Reports of corruption forces Immigration Dept to t...

Reports of corruption forces Immigration Dept to transfer officers

Zim Now Writer

In an effort to curb corruption, the Department of Immigration has redeployed its officers from various stations and ports of entry countrywide.

While official records say the redeployment was in line with standard operating procedures to transfer all those who have been at their stations for over five years, insiders said authorities were not happy with some cases of corruption that implicated immigration officers.

Ten Principal Immigration Officers who were stationed at Victoria Falls were transferred to Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, according to a June 30 memo signed by Department of Immigration’s Acting Director Administration Human Resources and addressed to all regions, stations and sections.

Officers who covered various ports of entry in the resort town, including Victoria Falls Border Post, Kazungula Border Post and Victoria Falls International Airport are the latest officers to be transferred.

The Department of Immigration Director-General Respect Gono confirmed the transfers but could not give further details.

“I cannot comment on those transfers,” said Gono.

However, the officers were aware of the transfers according to inside sources.

“Most of the officers were already aware of the imminent transfers following recent transfers in various stations,” said the source.

https://zimbabwenow.co.zw/articles/4922/beitbridge-smugglers-paradise-zrp-transfers-228-cops

This comes as the Zimbabwe Republic Police transferred all 217 police officers from Beitbridge Rural and 11 from Beitbridge CID, including four officers-in-charge with sources telling Zim Now that the challenge of corruption among police officers at the border town has been topical at the highest level following media exposes.

https://zimbabwenow.co.zw/articles/3922/beitbridge-smugglers-paradise-millions-milked-of-out-zim-into-sa-each-month

Zim Now did an investigation on the smuggling of various items out of Zimbabwe through Beitbridge. ZRP has kept on postponing giving responses to questions on investigation into corrupt government agents, including police officers and other agencies that are involved in the clearance of goods and persons, following several cases on either side of the border involving confiscation of smuggled goods and arrest of culprits who would have passed through official crossing points.