Officer may be fired for assault<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta\/Bogor\/Bandung<\/p>\n
Bogor Police chief Sr. Comr. Bambang Wasgito may be removed from
\nhis post if he is proven to have assaulted his subordinate Adj.
\nFirst Insp. Wawan Setiawan, the intelligence and security unit
\nhead of North Bogor Police sub-precinct, a police spokesman says.<\/p>\n
Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Aryanto Boedihardjo said on Monday
\nthat the National Police Internal Affairs had begun investigating
\nthe assault case on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He admitted, however, that Bambang had not been questioned so
\nfar.<\/p>\n
\"We will question Wawan first to know what actually happened.
\nNext, we will summon Bambang to the headquarters and only then we
\nwill decide what to do,\" Aryanto said.<\/p>\n
He stressed that it was possible that Bambang would be removed
\nfrom his post if internal affairs found sufficient evidence to
\nprove that he was guilty.<\/p>\n
Bambang allegedly assaulted Wawan, 53, upon receiving news
\nthat his son Tri Rianto Andika Putra, 15, had been attacked by
\nunidentified persons. Wawan, who was at the crime site but didn't
\nrecognize Tri, failed to capture the attackers.<\/p>\n
Upon receiving the news, Bambang called up Wawan immediately
\nand told him to come to the Central Bogor Police subprecinct,
\nwhere he was assaulted.<\/p>\n
Wawan's wife Muryati, 50, said on Sunday that her husband fell
\nunconscious immediately after arriving home on Saturday and was
\nrushed to Bogor Red Cross Hospital before he was moved to Azra
\nhospital on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Quoting doctors treating Wawan, Muryati said on Monday that
\nher husband was suffering from a brain hemorrhage.<\/p>\n
Bambang denied on Sunday that he had attacked Wawan, saying
\nthat the allegation was fabricated to discredit him.<\/p>\n
However, a member of Wawan's family who declined to be
\nidentified said that Bambang visited Wawan at the Bogor Red Cross
\nhospital on Sunday, before he was moved to Azra hospital.<\/p>\n
\"The Bogor Police chief (Bambang) came to see Pak Wawan and
\nwhen he saw the victim (Wawan), he cried and apologized. He also
\nasked family members not to grant interviews to journalists,\" he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
\"We took the apology to be an admission that he was the
\nattacker. He wouldn't apologize if he was not guilty. The fact
\nthat he cried gave the impression that he regretted what he had
\ndone,\" he said, adding that Wawan was moved to RS Azra upon
\nBambang's instruction.<\/p>\n
West Java Police chief Insp. Gen. Edi Darmadi said that he
\nwould summon Bambang to clarify news reports that he had
\nassaulted Wawan.<\/p>\n
Edi told reporters in Bandung, West Java on Monday that
\nBambang would be demoted if it was proven that he assaulted his
\nsubordinate.<\/p>\n
He said that his office had not received an official report
\nabout the assault even though it was already three days after the
\nincident allegedly took place.<\/p>\n
Bambang was removed from his post as West Jakarta Police chief
\nin 2003 following a report that he blackmailed several Chinese
\nbusinessmen. He was appointed as Bogor Police chief in 2004.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, several officers from West Java Police internal
\naffairs escorted Bambang to West Java Police Headquarters in
\nBandung while North Bogor Police subprecinct Adj. Comr. Nandun
\nand his officer Chief Brig. Santoso were summoned to the National
\nPolice Headquarters.<\/p>",
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