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Leadership and corruption is a specific form of leaders misconduct sometimes involving political corruptionPolitical corruption

In broad terms, political corruption is the misuse by government officials of their governmental powers for illegitimate, us...
, and generally designed to gain a financial or political benefit for a government officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest.

An example is police officers accepting bribes in exchange for not reporting organized drug or prostitution rings or other illegal activities. Another example is police officers ignoring the police code of conduct in order to be fully able to catch suspects (for example using forged evidence). Another, very rare, example would be police and other government entities deliberately and systematically participating in organized crimeOrganized crime

Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations....
 themselves.

In most major cities there are internal affairsFacts About Internal affairs (law enforcement)

The internal affairs division of a law enforcement agency investigates incidents and plausible suspicions of lawbreaking and...
 sections to investigate suspected police corruption or misconduct. Similar entities include the British Independent Police Complaints CommissionIndependent Police Complaints Commission

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom responsible for oversee...
.

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