NAB plans training academy for its IOs, prosecutors

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) plans to have its own training academy on Malaysian pattern, said the bureau’s chairman on Saturday.

NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry has directed Training and Research Division, NAB to prepare report on the current status of establishment of NAB Anti-Corruption Training Academy on the pattern of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Academy (MACA). The campus will be established at NAB Headquarters.

He said that NAB accords high priority to training of its investigation officers and prosecutors.

Training is an effective instrument through which human capabilities are developed for enhancing practical and productive efforts. He said that NAB recognises the centrality of training as a tool of improvement and maintaining the quality of its manpower.

He said that a standardised syllabus for all investigation officers, refresher and capacity building courses on accounts matters, general financial rules, digital forensic question documents and finger print analysis has been formulated by NAB to ensure quality and uniformity which will help NAB in achieving standard application of SOPs, laws and rules.



The NAB chairman said that NAB has established libraries at NAB Headquarters and all regional bureaus of NAB to facilitate IOs and prosecutors in collection of relevant information for expeditious disposal of cases. The bureau also has an e-library at NAB headquarters having more than 45, 000 electronic books related to law journals, yearly law reports and monthly law reports. NAB plans to have access with Higher Education Commission (HEC) library.

He said that NAB is one of investigation agency who has been prescribed for efficient, effective and expeditious disposal of all cases putting including white collar crime cases a maximum limit of 10 months- from complaint verification-to-inquiry-to-investigation and finally to a reference in the Accountability Court.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 25^th, 2017.