She strongly supports the concept and value of home inspections by competent inspectors — "we do need that third-party opinion" to be certain about the condition of a property, she said — but they need to stay within strict professional norms and guidelines.
Finding a competent, ethical home inspector is crucial; one of the best ways to do so is to get recommendations from family, friends, trustworthy acquaintances or local merchants.
The highly competent Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a policeman with a melancholic streak working under the North Yorkshire Major Crimes unit, is just the man to set things right.
They do not, for instance, define the meaning of competent in referring to crane inspectors and supervisors.
Michèle Alliot-Marie, the interior minister, has told the country's police that they do not have to meet quotas in issuing fines and urged them to leave policing to "competent" agents like public health inspectors.
Information on beneficiaries can only be accessed by "competent authorities", meaning police and tax inspectors, plus bankers, lawyers and accountants making money laundering checks.
Jordan doesn't wisecrack; the quips and puns are left to his bumbling sidekick Crackerjack, just one of Jordan's extended entourage which includes a well-meaning police inspector and an "ultra-competent" secretary.
The propensity for regulatory capture is further exacerbated by the limited specificity in criteria needed for inspectors, including lack of specification of work experience or previous references in the field, an oversight which can result in employing inspectors who are inexperienced, less competent, and potentially more susceptible to inducement.
"The State has determined that you… are no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal and ethical manner," the Office of the Inspector General at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission declared in a letter to Planned Parenthood.
