AGENCY TESTIMONY
DOI's mandate and focus areas for DOC investigations
3:10:45
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55 sec
Commissioner Strauber outlines DOI's broader mandate and specific focus areas for investigations related to the Department of Correction.
- DOI investigates fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, and illegal activities by city employees and contractors
- For DOC, DOI focuses on identifying and eliminating destabilizing forces in jail facilities
- Key areas include contraband smuggling, bribery, excessive force, and sexual abuse cases involving DOC staff
Jocelyn Strauber
3:10:45
Broadly speaking, DOE's mandate includes investigating and referring for criminal prosecution cases of fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, and other illegal activities by city employees, contractors, and others who do business with the city.
3:10:59
We also identify systemic corruption vulnerabilities and recommend improvements reduce the city's exposure to fraud waste, abuse, and corruption, and to improve the functioning of city agencies.
3:11:10
With respect to DOC specifically, DOI's investigations focus on identifying, investigating and eliminating destabilizing forces in the city's jail facilities, including contraband smuggling by officers, as well as bribery of officers by persons in custody, use of excessive force, and sexual abuse and sexual harassment cases.
3:11:32
Involving DOC staff.
3:11:34
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