Interesting turn of events ........... This should not be discussed in public ....... sounds Trumpian

The Comptroller of Custom's strategic plan should have been welcomed and endorsed by K P Turnquest as an excellent means of shaking up and rooting out the fraud and corruption that is endemic throughout the Customs' Department. It is well known that employers in the private sector (especially banks) move their personnel around different departments and locations, and force personnel in key positions to take their annual vacation, all for the purpose of making their businesses less vulnerable to fraudulent activities. As a professional accountant, K P Turnquest knows this to be the case and, as Minister of Finance, should be most supportive of the Comptroller of Customs serious initiative to make sure it is made very difficult and/or costly for the many tax dodgers in our society to bribe Customs Officers. There is no other effective way of disrupting, uncovering and dismantling the many clever and complex fraudulent schemes that exist within the Customs Department today - schemes that only benefit the very wealthy tax dodgers and starve our Public Treasury of the funds needed to properly govern our country. K P Turnquest seems to be wrongfully kowtowing to the wishes of some very influential tax dodgers in our society. He needs to explain himself - we, the people, did not vote for corrupt government as usual!

Agreed. I am finding this DPM very confusing, to say the least.

Exactly

It is very expensive to move P&P officers around the country these days ..... too many union rights and allowances to consider

While a shake up can "displace" routines of fraud and graft it is no real answer to the problem.
The fraud quickly re-establishes itself where ever it lands.
Looking a little deeper it seems purposed to place Nassau officers in Freeport, most of whom would have little understanding of the H.C.A. imports regime.
Added to the supposed Launch of the Customs "Single payee Window system" and given the fact it gives the H.C.A. bonded situation no consideration, and in fact as it was presented early 2017 directly contravenes court rulings pertaining to Bahamas Customs predictable and arbitrary attacks, I'd say another Bahamas Customs attack on Freeport is scheduled.
every 5-6 years is about right.
You'd think they'd learn......

Agents who steal a lot should be moved to the family islands where they can only steal a little. We know most customs agents in LPIA steal because either the bag boys tell us so or the agent asks for something directly.

No, there should be sting operations that get rid of the crooked agents.

No, they should be terminated.

Then we will never have any customs agents and never collect any revenue and the prison will be the size of Nassau. Oh wait - it already is!

Therein lies the rub: Customs has the authority to investigate fraud where suspected and prosecute.
No more, no less.
No, it is easier to make new rules which no one follows, nor can understand.

Any civilian who takes a job in any of the law enforcement agency to protect the assets and ensure security should be prepared to move to any part of the country.

Furthermore when dealing with money matters good accounting measures mandate that no official stays in one place for lengthy time. Given the history of alleged fraud, bribes, undervaluing, rebranding catehory for lesser rate, mona vie etc, officers must be transferred where necessary.

No officer is bigger than the govt.

Disappointed the Minister is supporting the chief even in part given the importance of the revenue collection of the peoples money.
No govt agency is bigger than the people.

Everything that has been tried in my lifetime to stamp out rampant corruption in customs has failed. Mass firing, retraining, computerization, relocation. Hopefully one day the boss will realize that a simple system with one moderate, socially acceptable, standard rate for everything would wipe out 90% of the opportunities to twist and turn within the system. Good lord knows we could do without 10 different rates of duty on various parts of chicken ana ana lumber is duty free but nails are 45% ?????? I bet an actuarian's salary for a year that a flat rate of 12.5% import duty on everything across the board would double the governments income with half the customs staff to manage it

But that would be sensible, happyfly!

WTO requires we drop duty rates to 8-10% across the board, and prevents the high duty rates to protect local products. Problem is we negotiated a gradual reduction by 2025.
Ministry of finance was hoping (against all sensibility) that they could ride a revenue "swell" by collecting VAT and Duty! Some damn fool elected Economist forecast that tripe.
We still have a business community 90% clueless as to what is coming, what has been "negotiated" on our behalf. Look at the surprise when government actually implemented VAT!
(8 years + after committed to)
Fault lies on both Government and private sector as the former treats the latter like mushrooms.
If the Government won't inform the private sector better inform itself!

I don't support the tearing apart of families. I know of a situation right know where the husband is working on a family island separate and apart from his wife and children for the past three years. If there is a need to send an officer to a family island send the single ones.Our society is in chaos because we don't value the concept and virtue of a proper family structure.

Family structure? What is this you speak of? We don't have many families here. We have women with kids and men.

What an idiot for a DPM..

Govt Blocks Shake up Proposed by Govt!... wtf???

We have an Idiot for DPM. How does the government block something it proposed.
He's acting like he's saving the day by stopping this shake up when it was him proposing it!.

A total upheaval from top to bottom/island to island dues not "a few regular transfers" make.
Something stinks, and it ain't K.Peter.

Is the Comptroller the problem??????? Sounds like a Road Traffic situation.