The Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Combating Corruption (Anti–Corruption Service) (hereinafter – the Agency) announces the selection for initial professional training for persons entering the law enforcement service for the first time:
— to the positions of an officer and investigator (category B-PRO-8), whose functional responsibilities include the identification, suppression, disclosure and investigation of criminal offenses. The minimum wage is 184,048 tenge.
Acceptance of documents for participation in the selection is carried out by the territorial divisions of the Agency (contact phone numbers and addresses are listed below) from September 5 to October 5, 2022.
To participate in the selection for initial professional training, candidates must:
1) pass a test, including an assessment of personal qualities in the authorized body for civil service affairs (according to the corresponding program for law enforcement service positions);
2) submit the following documents to the territorial divisions of the Agency:
— a statement of the established sample;
— a copy of the identity document of a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
— copies of educational documents, as well as documents confirming the passage of the nostrification procedure or recognition in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Education” (for diplomas issued by foreign educational institutions, originals for verification);
— a completed detailed autobiography, written with his own hand, indicating close relatives, including former spouses in the prescribed form;
— a statement of consent to serve in any region;
— a military ID card or an attached certificate.
The provision of an incomplete list of documents, as well as in violation of the deadline, is the basis for refusal to participate in the selection.
Basic requirements for candidates:
— citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
— age from 18 years, but not older than 35 years;
— higher legal or economic education.
A person cannot participate in the selection:
— recognized in accordance with the procedure established by law as incompetent or with limited legal capacity;
— for which, within a year before entering the law enforcement service, an administrative penalty was imposed in court for an intentional offense;
— for which, within three years before entering the law enforcement service, an administrative penalty was imposed in court for committing a corruption offense;
— in respect of whom , within three years before entering the service , a court verdict was passed for committing a criminal offense , or who , within three years before entering the service , was released from criminal liability for committing a criminal offense on the basis of paragraphs 3), 4), 9), 10) and 12) part one of article 35 or Article 36 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter referred to as the CPC of the Republic of Kazakhstan);
— committed a corruption crime;
— dismissed from work for committing a corruption offense;
— previously convicted or released from criminal liability for committing a crime on the basis of paragraphs 3), 4), 9), 10) and 12) of the first part of Article 35 or Article 36 of the CPC of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as dismissed for negative reasons from public service, from other law enforcement agencies, special state bodies, courts and bodies justice.
Selection for initial professional training includes the following stages:
— acceptance of documents from citizens who have expressed a desire to participate in the selection;
— passing an interview;
— passing medical and psychophysiological examination in military medical commissions;
— passing a polygraph examination;
— passing an exam at the Academy of Law Enforcement Agencies under the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter referred to as the Academy).
The exam at the Academy is conducted in the form of oral answers of the candidate to the three questions of the examination card and additional questions of the members of the commission.
The exam will be conducted in the following disciplines and regulatory legal acts:
1) constitutional law;
2) criminal law;
3) criminal procedure law;
4) administrative law;
5) The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Law Enforcement Service”;
6) The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On combating Corruption”;
7) The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the Civil Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan”.
Candidates who have successfully passed the selection will undergo initial professional training at the Academy.
The period of initial professional training is 6 months (5 months of training at the Academy + 1 month of internship).
For the period of initial professional training, candidates are provided with a scholarship in the amount of 40,532 tenge.
Candidates who have successfully completed initial professional training are enrolled in the anti-corruption service, while the appointment to the position will be made without a probationary period with the simultaneous establishment of a special rank.
Candidates for admission to the law enforcement service must be ready to accept the restrictions associated with staying in the law enforcement service and anti-corruption restrictions.
Restrictions related to staying in law enforcement service:
The employee is not entitled to:
— to be a deputy of representative bodies and a member of local self-government bodies, to be a member of parties, trade unions, to support a political party, to create public associations in the system of law enforcement agencies pursuing political goals based on the community of their professional interests to represent and protect labor, as well as other socio-economic rights and interests its members and improving working conditions;
— engage in other paid activities, except for pedagogical, scientific and other creative activities;
— engage in entrepreneurial activity, including participation in the management of a commercial organization, regardless of its organizational and legal form;
— to be a representative in the affairs of third parties, except in cases provided for by laws;
— to use for non—official purposes the means of material, technical, financial and informational support of his official activities, other state property and official information;
— participate in actions that hinder the normal functioning of state bodies and the performance of official duties, including strikes;
— in connection with the performance of official powers to use the services of individuals and legal entities for personal purposes;
— to use their official position for selfish purposes, including by collusion with officials and other persons;
— to hold a position directly subordinate to the position held by his close relatives (parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted, full- and half-siblings, grandparents, grandchildren) or spouse.
An employee, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, within a month after taking office, is obliged, for the duration of law enforcement service, to transfer to trust management the shares (shares of participation in the authorized capital) of commercial organizations and other property owned by him, the use of which entails income, except for money, bonds, open and interval shares mutual funds legally owned by him, as well as other property transferred to the property lease. The contract for the trust management of property is subject to notarization.
The employee has the right to receive income from the property transferred to the trust management, including in the form of remuneration, dividends, winnings, income from leasing property and other legal sources.
Anti-corruption restrictions on:
— carrying out activities incompatible with the performance of state functions;
— inadmissibility of joint service (work) of loved ones
relatives, spouses and relatives;
— the use of official and other information that is not subject to official dissemination in order to obtain or extract property and non-property benefits and advantages;
— acceptance of gifts in connection with the performance of official duties in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, except for cases established by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The selection procedure and conditions for initial professional training are regulated by the Joint Order of the Prosecutor General No. 80 dated June 26, 2020, the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 675 dated July 14, 2020 and the Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Anti-Corruption Service) dated June 29, 2020 No. 199 “On Approval of the Selection Rules for initial professional training and the conditions of its passage for persons entering the service of the prosecutor’s office, the anti-corruption service and the economic investigation service, as well as the grounds for their deduction from the initial vocational training.”
Phone numbers for inquiries at the Academy: 8-71651-68-139, 8-778-672-66-24.
Call on working days from Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 13:00 and from 14:30 to 18:30 hours.
Entrance exam questions are posted on the Academy’s website.
