AGO, police to boost cooperation<\/p>\n
Eva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
In an effort to boost coordination between the Attorney General's
\nOffice (AGO) and police, newly installed National Police chief
\nGen. Sutanto paid a visit to Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh
\non Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The four-star police general said that his visit was aimed at
\nimproving the working relationship between the AGO and the police
\nforce after he was sworn in as the new police chief.<\/p>\n
"I am the new guy here and I have to introduce myself to him
\n(Abdul Rahman)," Sutanto said.<\/p>\n
He said that during the meeting, he and the Attorney General
\ndiscussed ways of streamlining the criminal justice process.<\/p>\n
"As a team we should have one vision and mission to ensure
\nthat the law is enforced seriously. We will follow up on this
\nmeeting and we will also boost coordination at the lower levels,
\nso that our talks will not stop at this level only," Sutanto
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The AGO and National Police have been harshly criticized for
\ntheir poor coordination in dealing with many criminal cases.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors often return case files prepared by police,
\nclaiming that the dossiers were incomplete.<\/p>\n
This has led to many delays in bringing accused persons to
\ncourt.<\/p>\n
As an example, the case file of businessman Adrian Waworuntu,
\nwho was convicted in a lending scandal involving Rp 1.7 trillion
\nfrom state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI), was returned a
\ntotal of seven times by prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Dossiers of suspects in a graft case at the State Logistics
\nAgency (Bulog) over the procurement of poultry feed took more
\nthan a year for the police to complete after being rejected five
\ntimes by prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Whenever case files are rejected, police investigators often
\nblame prosecutors for not giving them sufficiently detailed
\ninstructions on what was lacking, while prosecutors blame police
\nfor not properly preparing the dossiers.<\/p>\n
More cooperation between the two legal authorities would save
\ntime and money, as well as improving efficiency in processing
\ncriminal cases from the police all the way to court.<\/p>\n
"We must be able to overcome the obstacles during the process,
\nso we can send the case files to court as soon as possible and so
\ncourts can hand down fair verdicts, as is desired by the public
\nin general," Sutanto said.<\/p>\n
He added that all crimes, including corruption cases, should
\nbe responded to faster by prosecutors and police investigators.<\/p>\n
"So far the coordination between the two sides is good, but we
\nwant it to be better and we should improve it in the near future
\nby creating good communications between the two," Sutanto said.<\/p>",
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