Protecting Public Resources in Scotland: counter fraud strategy

Strategic Objectives

We have five strategic objectives in our approach to countering fraud, bribery and corruption:

• Awareness: We will deter fraud, bribery and corruption by raising awareness among public organisations in Scotland, our partner organisations in the voluntary and private sectors and our stakeholders.
• Prevention: We will disable fraud, bribery and corruption through improving our systems and controls to support our operations.
• Teamwork: We will prevent fraud, bribery and corruption by removing silos and working together across organisations and the public sector to share information
  and develop collaborative approaches.
• Investigation: We will detect fraud, bribery and corruption by being proactive in analysing data to identify areas at risk, by being effective and professional in our investigations of specific cases and by maintaining robust whistle-blowing procedures.
• Enforcement: We will deal with fraud, bribery and corruption by continuing to be tough on fraudsters by punishing them more efficiently and effectively.