PUTRAJAYA: A total of 751 warnings have been issued following the publication of the first series of the 2015 Auditor-General's Report.
Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa explained that 708 or 94.3 per cent were corrective warnings and 43 or 5.7 per cent were punitive warnings.
Punitive warnings, he explained, involved embezzlement, abuse of power, misconduct or negligence in the execution of duties, whereas corrective warnings were made to improve the system and procedure.
Under punitive warnings, six special investigation committees have been established as a proactive measure to investigate 10 warnings involving four ministries, he said.
The ministries were the Home Ministry, Works Ministry, Urban Well-being, Housing and Local Government Ministry and the Prime Minister's Department.
"Disciplinary proceedings will be started on six officers for two warnings involving procurement management and services under the Civil Defence Department and the implementation of the Malaysian Immigration System (myIMMs) by the Immigration Department.
"The other eight warnings only needed system, procedures and regulation improvements as there were no elements of embezzlement, power abuse and misconduct," he told an open session with the media on the first series of the AG report today.
Ali said the remaining 33 warnings on statutory bodies, state governments and federal companies will be brought to the AG's Report Action Committee by the AG's Department to decide on actions to be taken.
Deliberating further on the corrective warnings, he said 39.5 per cent or 280 warnings have been completed where corrective actions have been taken by the agencies and ministries involved.
"However, no action has been taken on the remaining 60.5 per cent or 428 warnings as those warnings need time to carry out corrective action.
"The status of the action is monitored by the Auditor-General's Department Dashboard," he added.
Commenting on the implementation of the exit policy, he said 2,680 officers were currently being monitored for not achieving 60 per cent or above in their 2015 appraisal.
"If these officers remain under 60 per cent, their service will be ended next year," he added.