For the purpose of extending and strengthening the public policy for prevention through education delegated to this Office, the Center for the Development of Ethical Thought is hereby created.
The mission of the Center for the Development of Ethical Thought is to attain the following objectives, among others:
(1) To design and develop training initiatives regarding ethics, values, and integral development for the entire society.
(2) To provide public servants with training that promotes an adequate academic and practical formation on values, government ethics, and the sound administration of public resources.
(3) To offer a formative program of courses, whose objective is to study the substantive, procedural, and general aspects of this chapter.
(4) To examine corruption from an interdisciplinary approach that explains the economic, political, and socio-cultural components thereof.
(5) To promote the study of all aspects of ethics, among them, the influence of the ethical factor on internal state works and its pertinence and impact on global relations.
(6) To disclose by means of publications the findings of any academic research study on the public-ethical social process.
Government radio and television stations, operated by the Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation, shall allocate airtime permanently, free of charge, of at least two (2) hours every month for broadcasting programs, projects, and initiatives that promote ethics, values, and the public policy of the Office.
History —Jan. 3, 2012, No. 1, § 3.1.