Election Investigations Guidebook Integrity and Incorruptibility States should promote electoral integrity and effective practices that are aimed at prevention of corruption within the election process by first instituting clearly defined laws, regulations, and policies applicable to investigations. States should also ensure proper and transparent selection and compensation processes for investigators and adopt mechanisms that prevent and combat corruption within an investigative body. Recruitment and Promotion International guidelines repeatedly emphasize that individuals selected for investigative and adjudicative processes should possess “integrity and ability with appropriate training or qualifications.”504 Thus, irrespective of other methods of selection, a candidate’s professional qualifications and personal integrity should constitute the main criteria for selection.505 These principles should be enshrined in public service and electoral laws and in the enacting legislation of an investigative body. In addition to the qualifications reinforcing the competence and professionalism of investigators, discussed in the above section Principle 3: Effectively, legal provisions related to the recruitment of investigators could: › Establish selection procedures that ensure investigators are not beholden to any individual or group;506 › Identify criteria for recruitment that focus on individual merit and integrity;507 › Provide safeguards against improper motives for recruitment;508 and › Incorporate considerations of potential conflicts of interest.509 Elections Canada, for example, screens candidates for special investigators on the basis of professional qualifications, current obligations or commit- 504 U.N. Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors, supra note 320, § 1. 505 OHCHR Manual, supra note 374, at 123. 506 Orozco-Henríquez et al., supra note 101, at 95. 507 Id. at 97. 508 Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, supra note 112. 509 See, e.g., Orozco-Henríquez et al., supra note 101, at 112. 138