{"id":777022022,"date":"2025-01-15T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777022022"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:42:40","slug":"macau-restructures-gaming-inspection-and-coordination-bureau-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-restructures-gaming-inspection-and-coordination-bureau-2","title":{"rendered":"Macau restructures Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities in Macau have announced the appointment of 65 new staff to increase the number of inspectors at the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- The <strong>Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)<\/strong> has started its restructuring process by hiring new <strong>inspectors<\/strong>. Announced as part of the Legislative Assembly report on Macau\u2019s financial-year 2025 budget plan, the regulator will be adding <strong>65 staff<\/strong> this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report outlines the explanation to the assembly of the government\u2019s expected revenue and public spending items for this year, however, it doesn\u2019t mention the current total number of employees of the Macau casino regulator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said the additional workers were needed for the \u201ceffective implementation\u201d of casino inspection duties in the current gaming concession period that started on January 1, 2023, according to the report. The assembly\u2019s opinion report noted that the 2025 recruitments are part of the gaming bureau\u2019s restructuring effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A law related to the structure of DICJ, which went effective on <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-may-double-its-number-of-gaming-inspectors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 22, 2021<\/a>, said that the number of posts at the gaming bureau would expand by circa 139 per cent over a period of time, from 192 to 459.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>See also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-shares-gross-gaming-revenue-results-for-2024\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-shares-gross-gaming-revenue-results-for-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau shares gross gaming revenue results in 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Macau have announced the appointment of 65 new staff to increase the number of inspectors at the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) is undergoing a significant restructuring, adding 65 new inspectors in 2025. This capacity expansion, part of a broader plan to increase staff by 139% to 459 posts, aims to enhance the effective implementation of casino inspection duties during the current gaming concession period.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Legislative Assembly","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"DICJ Inspection Impact","query":"How will the increased inspector headcount at DICJ specifically alter the frequency and depth of regulatory audits for Macau's gaming concessionaires?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Outlook","query":"What are the anticipated implications of this enhanced regulatory capacity on the enforcement of responsible gaming measures and anti-money laundering (AML) protocols within Macau's integrated resorts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,156,158],"tags":[29,23911,23906],"class_list":["post-777022022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-casino","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777022022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777022026,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022022\/revisions\/777022026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777022022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777022022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777022022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}