Enhancing police efficacy

Enhancing police efficacy

Almost all kinds of disorderly and indisciplinary conduct is
blamed on failings on the part of the police. Actually, as the
American police expert Walter Hartinger says, there is no
correlation between the occurrence of disorder in the community
and police shortcomings. The reason could be that such is the
state of the community.

Aside from the fact that the police force as part of the
Indonesian Armed Forces remains not quite ensconced, it also
suffers from a gross shortage in personnel and supporting
facilities. Police tasks differ from those of the military. They
both protect the community but the approaches are different.
Policemen are not soldiers.

There has been some thought of separating the police from the
Armed Forces in order that they may become more professional and
independent in the exercise of their duties. As long as the
intent is to prevent confusion in function and approach, we
support the idea.

-- Media Indonesia, Jakarta