Corruption and state security in Tanzania (the case study of Tanzania police force)

Abstract

This research is about corruption and state security in Tanzania ( the case study of Tanzania Police Force), the objective of the research were to determine the forms of corruption in Tanzania Police Forces, to examine the effects of corruption on state security and to establish the possible solutions to corruption in the government institutions that can improve state security. The study adopted a descriptive design and the interviews was used as data correction methods.The research finding revealed that the forms of corruption in Tanzania are so many but some are bribery and grease payment, petty and grand corruption as well as bureaucratic corruption. Bureaucratic corruption is more intense in Tanzania as the respondent revealed and the findings imply that there is a need of institutional anti-corruption measure that are aimed to counter this high prevalence of corruption in public institutions .Furthermore, the findings indicated that corruption affect more on state security by preventing people to access on basic opportunities like health and education services, it also violate human rights by discriminating some people to fulfill their potential and sometimes it creates inequality among people. The outcome of inequality among people is raising of conflicts within the community and this in turn lead to insecurity in within the country. The finding further indicated that there is a need of anti corruption measure that can help to reduce corruption in Tanzania. Some of those measure included decentralization of anti-corruption measure at local entities by helping local people to take part in anti corruption policies. Furthermore, the government of Tanzania has to Strengthen Anti-Corruption Legislation, Enhance Audit Institutions, Enhance Transparency Initiative, Open Government Partnership, and Improve Transparency in tax and customs, Reforms in sectoral service delivery and Improvement of decentralization