City police to get new deputy chief

City police to get new deputy chief

JAKARTA (JP): Outgoing City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto is scheduled today to install Col. Hamami Nata, an adjutant to President Soeharto, as his new deputy.

Hamami replaces Brig. Gen. Dibyo Widodo, Soeharto's former adjutant, who will replace Hindarto on Friday.

Hindarto will be appointed as a senior police officer at National Police Headquarters until March when he will retire at the age of 56.

By law, police personnel retire at the age of 55 but Hindarto's term of assignment, which should have ended in March last year, had been extended for another one year.

Hamami has been an adjutant to the President since 1990 after being assigned as head of the Central Jakarta police precinct.

Dibyo, who was appointed as the deputy to Jakarta police chief five months ago, was also an adjutant to the President in the period between 1986 and 1992.

Rumors on the appointment of Dibyo as the new city police chief have long been heard, especially since the installment of Maj. Gen. Wiranto, also a former adjutant to the President, as the new Jakarta military chief late last year. (bsr)