Sant Vicent del Raspeig and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency collaborate in the training of local administration personnel in integrity, public ethics and fraud prevention

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The City Council of Sant Vicent del Raspeig and the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community (AVAF) signed a collaboration protocol between both institutions to start the development of different joint projects with the aim of reinforcing and defending ethics and public integrity in June 2022. News here 

Nine months after the signing of the action protocol by the mayor, Jesús Villar, and the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, the AVAF once again visits the municipality to teach

On Monday, March 6, 2023, in the multipurpose room of the local social center, the conference “Integrity, public ethics and fraud prevention in local administration” took place. The conference was presented by the mayor of the municipality and was given by AVAF technical staff.

The Sant Vicent del Raspeig City Council approved its Integrity Plan and anti-fraud measures in December 2022 and with this activity importance is attached to training in public integrity and corruption prevention in public administrations.

The Valencian Antifraud Agency, throughout the four hours of training, had the opportunity to share, with the more than 40 attendees, the analysis of the Valencian institutional framework in terms of public integrity and the novelties and obligations that the new state regulations entail in anti-corruption matter.

The training and awareness-raising day on integrity, public ethics and fraud prevention in the local administration in which the AVAF has participated has been addressed to elected officials, temporary staff, authorized nationals and technical staff of the administration.

Anselm Bodoque, head of the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, presented the public policies for the prevention of fraud and corruption, as well as the reason for being and functions of the AVAF. The culture of public integrity promoted by the AVAF and the prevention of risks in decision-making in the local administration was the subject addressed by Pilar Moreno, a technician from the Agency’s Training Service. In turn, Marita Oliver, an AVAF training technician, focused her speech on the basic aspects of the anti-corruption cycle.

The public debate focused on the lack of human resources in the municipalities and on the difficulties of planning and executing public procurement, and also on the need for the selection processes for municipal personnel to be carried out in processes at the regional level. Likewise, the members of the corporation and public officials of the Sant Vicent City Council expressed their concern about the challenges that Law 2/2023 poses for them.

If you wish to have specialized training in integrity and corruption prevention in your public administration, do not hesitate to write to training@antifraucv.es

Sant Vicent del Raspeig and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency collaborate in the training of local administration personnel in integrity, public ethics and fraud prevention.

The #DocufòrumAVAF returns to the Hall of Degrees of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia

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The #DocufòrumAVAF learning experience, created by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency for the debate on corruption in the classrooms of the educational centers of the Valencian Community, is one of the most requested training activities of the AVAF.

In the 2022-2023 academic year, the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia has included the AVAF University Docufòrum activity in the Center Innovation Project (PIC).

The #DocufòrumAVAF is an activity aimed at promoting the social culture of civic ethics, public integrity, fraud prevention and rejection of corruption among students of all University degrees.

On this occasion, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has debated these issues with students of the Double Degree in Law and Criminology, the Degree in Law and the Double Degree in Political Science and Law. Thus, on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, a new #DocufòrumAVAF was held at the Faculty of Law, of the University of Valencia.

106 students of the subject of Constitutional Law I and II of the first and second year participated in the training activity.

The activity had the collaboration of professors Vicenta Tasa and Mariano Vivancos from the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science and Public Administration. Anselm Bodoque Arribas, head of the AVAF Training Service, was responsible for energizing the debate session with the students.

After watching the documentary “Corruption: Harmful Organism”, the students ask questions focused on the origin and causes of corruption, the social impact and collective costs it entails, the perception of corruption in our society and in other countries of our around.

Subsequently, the AVAF representative discusses with the students the issues raised in their questions and others related to the need for greater public ethics and integrity, prevention strategies and civic training or the functions of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and public policies. of fighting corruption.

In the debate, the students showed interest in the investigation procedure and the means available to them in corruption processes, as well as the profile of the Agency’s personnel and the procedure for accessing it. He was also concerned about the strategies to fight against fraud and corruption in Spain, and in the legal framework of integrity of the Valencian Community.

The activity has been organized in collaboration with the University of Valencia, which we thank for its interest and willingness to help create a culture of public integrity and rejection of fraud and corruption.

If you are a university, secondary or baccalaureate teacher and you are interested in having the training activity #DocufòrumAVAF “Corruption: harmful organism” carried out in your subject, do not hesitate to contact the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency through from training@antifraucv.es.

#DocuforumAVAF at the IES Serpis in the city of Valencia

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The Valencian Antifraud Agency has held the first #DocuforumAVAF in Secondary Schools 2023 in the city of Valencia, at IES Serpis.

The learning experience offered by the Agency consists of several phases and aims to make students reflect on strategies to combat fraud and corruption in the public administration, paying special attention to the need to protect people who report corruption.

The 1st year of high school students of the IES Serpis in Valencia watched the documentary “Corruption: harmful organism” on Pandora Box TV, in a first session with the teacher responsible for the activity and heard the testimonies of informants of corruption in the public sector.

Subsequently, on Thursday, February 23, in a second work session, carried out in the classroom by the AVAF training technician, Pilar Moreno, the 1st year Baccalaureate students were able to raise their doubts and questions regarding how to prevent and persecutes corruption in the Valencian Community.

The Valencian Antifraud Agency, through the training activity of #DocuforumAVAF, has the opportunity to show in the classrooms of schools, institutes and universities throughout the Valencian Community, the response that Les Corts gave, through the creation of the AVAF, to the mandate of the UN through the United Nations Convention against corruption. In turn, it allows students to share the challenges of the present and future in matters such as public integrity, prevention and protection of informants of corruption.

If you are a university or high school teacher in the Valencian Community and you are interested in having the training activity “Docuforum: Corruption, harmful organism” carried out in your classroom, do not hesitate to contact the training service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency at training@antifraucv.es