Police recruitment bribery scam - the cost of a place on the force

A Gazeta Wyborcza investigation has found that wannabe police officers can bribe their way into the force. A place in the police ranks can be had for between 1,500 to 10,000 zloty. The prosecutors office in Poznań arrested Ryszard N., the head of the Crime Department in Jeżyce for offering jobs in the police office for money. The paper says this is not a lone case and such practices can be observed more and more often all over the country. During the recruitment process health and psychological factors are not taken into account. Instead, police officers, who function as intermediaries, accept bribes and share them with the members of the recruitment staff. Police Headquarters claims though that the phenomenon is not observed on a massive scale and they have everything under control. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.3) J.J.