Four police chiefs get new postings
Four police chiefs get new postings
JAKARTA (JP): Four chiefs of police in the capital and several
senior officers at Jakarta Police Headquarters will officially
assume new posts beginning next Tuesday, about a week prior to
the start of the Aug. 7 through Aug. 18 annual General Session of
the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR).
A spokesman at National Police Headquarters, Sr. Supt. Saleh
Saaf, said on Friday that the chiefs consisted of Sr. Supt. Timur
Pradopo of Central Jakarta, Sr. Supt. Adjie Rustam Ramdja of West
Jakarta, Asst. Supt. Pudji Hartanto of Tangerang and Asst. Supt.
Bambang Widaryatmo of Depok.
Based on a decree signed by National Police chief Gen.
Rusdihardjo, the West Jakarta Police will be led by Adjie Rustam
Ramdja; Central Jakarta Police by Asst. Supt. Iwan Nurisman
Slamet; head of the city police's intelligence unit in Tangerang
by Asst. Supt. Syafii Aksal, former chief of North Aceh Police;
and Depok Police by Asst. Supt. M. Athar Azeth, an intelligence
officer at National Police Headquarters.
Timur will be assigned the post of chief of the operational
unit at West Java Police Headquarters, Bambang as secretary to
the chief of the Jakarta Police detectives unit and Pudji will be
appointed as deputy chief of Planning Affairs at the Traffic
Directorate of National Police Headquarters.
One of the several officers to be rotated beginning next week
is Supt. Zainuri Lubis, spokesman of the city police, who has
served in that post since early last year.
Zainuri, who will be replaced by Asst. Supt. Nur Usman, former
chief of the alert unit at the headquarters, is to be promoted to
police chief in Ciamis, West Java.
Officer Saleh Saaf denied an accusation that the rotation had
something to do with the upcoming General Session.
"It's part of the police's regular rotation, carried out
annually in July and October," he told The Jakarta Post.
He said the rotation took place not only in Jakarta but also
in other provincial police forces.
"The rotation also takes effect at other provincial police
headquarters since it is the policy of National Police
Headquarters to regularly rotate the officers," he said, adding
that it was time for the officers to be replaced.
On average, the officers have been in their positions for at
least two years. (asa)