Paledi�s meteoric rise and rise

It has been a long and exciting professional odyssey for Victor Bruno Paledi, the newly-appointed DCEC boss.  His move from the Botswana Police Service (BPS) to the country’s corruption busting agency is as much of a surprise to many as was his unexpected career shift from the teaching profession to the BPS some 23 years ago.

Paledi’s career journey began in 1994, the year the DCEC was established, under the Corruption and Economic Crime Act.  He was one of the 90 students from UB’s Faculty of Education who graduated with a postgraduate diploma in education (PGDE) in the winter of 1994.  This qualification was additional to a Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities that the class had obtained in the previous year.