{"id":58374,"date":"2015-08-07T22:18:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58374"},"modified":"2015-08-07T22:18:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:18:34","slug":"customs-most-corrupt-govt-agency-sws-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/07\/customs-most-corrupt-govt-agency-sws-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs most corrupt gov\u2019t agency \u2013 SWS report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13654\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bureau-of-Customs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13654\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bureau-of-Customs.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau of Customs logo\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bureau-of-Customs.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bureau-of-Customs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bureau of Customs logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 According to the Social Weather Station (SWS) report released in 2014, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) has been the most corrupt government agency in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Based from the results of the 2013 SWS Survey of Enterprises on Corruption, BOC had a \u2018very bad\u2019 rating with -63 in 2013. In the previous year, the bureau only had a \u2018bad\u2019 rating with -46.<\/p>\n<p>Although still receiving a \u2018very bad\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019 rating, the BOC actually got improved ratings as it was given an \u2018execrable\u2019 rating from 2005 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the bureau, other government offices which were considered most corrupt in 2013 were the Land Transportation Office (LTO) with -32, the House of Representatives with -28, the Philippine National Police (PNP) with -24, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) with -22 and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) with -10.<\/p>\n<p>The LTO, DPWH, PNP and the House of Representatives received better ratings in the previous year with -26, -6, -12 and -21, respectively. The BIR, on the other hand, received poorer rating with -20.<\/p>\n<p>The SWS\u2019 ratings were graded into Excellent with +70 and above, Very Good with +50 to +69, Good with +30 to +49, Moderate with +10 to +29, Neutral with -9 to +9, Poor with -10 to -29, Bad with -30 to -49, Very Bad with -50 to -69, and Execrable with -70 and below.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the 2014 SWS Survey of Enterprises on Corruption have not yet been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 According to the Social Weather Station (SWS) report released in 2014, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":13654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-58374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}