Hamami to replace Dibyo as city's new police chief
Hamami to replace Dibyo as city's new police chief
JAKARTA (JP): Deputy City Police Chief Brig. Gen. Hamami Nata will become Jakarta's new police chief today, replacing Maj. Gen. Dibyo Widodo, says spokesman Lt. Col. Iman Haryatna.
Hamami, 49 and a former adjutant to President Soeharto, will be installed as chief of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police by National Police Chief Gen. Banurusman, who will be replaced by Dibyo.
Brig. Gen. Gunawan, Head of the Research and Development Division of the National Police, replaces Hamami.
The city police headquarters is not a new place for Gunawan, who was once head of Jakarta's detective unit.
According to a tentative plan, Dibyo will be promoted to lieutenant general before being installed as National Police Chief by the Armed Forces Commander Gen. Feisal Tanjung at the Police Academy in Semarang, Central Java, on Monday.
Hamami, who will soon be promoted to major general, has served as the chief deputy of the Jakarta Police for about 14 months.
He was once head of the Lido Police School in Sukabumi, West Java, and chief of the North Jakarta and Central Jakarta police. He was then appointed as deputy of the Jakarta police's Planning and Budgeting division.
Before being appointed city police chief deputy in January last year, Hamami served as an adjutant to the President for about three years.
The general was married to Herlina and has two sons.
Hamami is a graduate of the Armed Forces Academy for Police, the Police High School, Senior Officers School and the National Resilience Institute.
Farewell parade
Gunawan will be installed at a ceremony in the parking lot of the Traffic Police Directorate at the City Police Headquarters.
The ceremony will be followed by a farewell parade for the outgoing City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Dibyo Widodo.
Due to the activities and parades to be held by some of the 15,000 city police personnel, the city police headquarters will be closed for day, said spokesman Iman.
People who need to visit the station should park at the nearby Parkir Timur Senayan area, Iman said.
"The police headquarters will be closed until 10 a.m. the following day due to the installment ceremony," the spokesman said.
A number of important figures, including politicians and senior Armed Forces officers, are expected to attend today's ceremony.
In related development yesterday, Dibyo installed Lt. Col. Sisno Adiwinoto as the new South Jakarta Police Chief, replacing Lt. Col. SY Wenas.
Sisno, 43, handed over his position as Depok police chief to Lt. Col. Herman S. Sumawiredja, head of the city traffic police's investigation unit, on Monday.
Both Sisno and Herman, 44, have spent most of their careers with the traffic police unit. They also took a six-month traffic police course at the Politie Verkeersinstituut at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. (bsr)