It's a fair point that it's very difficult to avoid conflict of interest when doing your job better might mean your department has less money to use. My sugges

It's a fair point that it's very difficult to avoid conflict of interest when doing your job better might mean your department has less money to use. My suggestion: Remove the incentive by divorcing all fine (and similar things like seized goods) revenue from the government budget. Perhaps stipulate that it gets distributed to charities, or is split equally among taxpayers as a tax offset.