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Onyeozili, E., 2005, “Obstacles to effective Policing in Nigeria”,

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies, vol. 1, No. 1,

Department of Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, USA, pp 1-20.

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Acts of corruption by the police in the form of bribery, extortion, arbitrariness,

pervasiveness, intimidation, and delay in justice

administration are obstacle to effective policing.

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Brodeur, Jean-Paul, 2007, High and Low Policing in Post-9/11 Times, Oxford Journal Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 25-37, http://policing.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/1/1/25

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Police corruption as referred to by the public is not

differentiated according to the high and low police.

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Bardhan, P (2006), “The

economist’s approach to the

problem of corruption”, World Development 34, 341-348.

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Increased police salaries, increased incidence and

prevalence of corruption.

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Besley, T, Mclaren, J (1993), “Taxes and bribery: The role of wage incentives”, Economic Journal 103, 119-141.

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Ditto

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Feinberg, G (2009), The epidemic of petit corruption in

contemporary Cambodia: Causes, consequences and solutions, Crime Prevention and

Community Safety 11, 277-296.

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Corruption and other

unofficial fees exist in public agencies, education and health sectors of Cambodia.

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Le, V H, de Haan, J,

Dietzenbacher, E (2013), “Do higher government wages reduce corruption? Evidence from a novel dataset”, CESifo Working Paper No. 4254.

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The impact of government wage increases on reducing police corruption may be effective at relatively low-income levels; otherwise generally higher wages fall short of reducing corruption.

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Ulhaque, N, Sahay, R (1996), “Do government wage cuts close budget deficits? Costs of

corruption”, IMF Staff Papers 43, 754-778.

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An increase in wages alone will not reduce corruption

among the police who are public sector workers.

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Van Rijckeghem, C, Weder, B (2001), “Bureaucratic corruption and the rate of temptation: Do wages in the civil service affect corruption, and by how much?”, Journal of Development

Economics 65, 307-331.

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A rather large increase in wages is required to

eradicate corruption solely by raising wages in low

income countries. However, in order to achieve that large of an increment, the increase has to be so huge that it is not sustainable in actual or

absolute terms.