Integrated security system to be expanded
Integrated security system to be expanded
JAKARTA (JP): City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Dibyo Widodo says
the city's newly-introduced integrated security system must be
expanded to include the public.
The integrated security system, which involves all civilian
forces throughout the city, is currently being tried in the
Senayan area and its surroundings. The system was introduced last
month and will eventually spread out to areas around Jl. Thamrin
and Jl. Gatot Subroto, Dibyo said yesterday.
Dibyo met with community security guards and owners of offices
and buildings around Senayan to discuss the system yesterday.
He said the integrated system needs greater support because
the city police are short of personnel. "The large number of
civilians should be used appropriately to help the officers
secure the city."
When the system is well implemented in a selected area, the
number of crimes and public disturbances in the area is expected
to drop gradually, he said.
In order to meet the target, all security guards in the
community and at buildings in the selected area are expected to
work hand in hand to prevent crime. They are expected to provide
the police with accurate information as soon as they notice
something unusual.
As a result, he said, civilians need extra skills to deal with
any possible occurrence in their areas.
Course
Earlier on Thursday, a number of city police detectives took a
one-day course to deal with various crime scenarios.
"Most of our achievements in solving cases are just based on
luck," admitted the head of the city crime investigation
directorate, Col. Nurfauzi.
"We realize that our ability and facilities are far from the
public's expectations," Nurfauzi said, adding that academic
levels needed to be raised as well.
In a speech, City Police Chief Dibyo said that the shortage of
personnel should be used as an excuse for police failures.
"If we only have a small hoe in our hands but we have to dig a
large hole, we don't have any choice but to just do it," he said.
"The key is we never give up!"
The course was participated in by dozens of junior detectives
from city police headquarters. The tutors were local senior
police detectives.
State Minister for Administrative Reforms T.B. Silalahi also
urged police officers to improve their skills and attitude.
"City police patrolling the streets need to know the proper
way to handle traffic violators instead of just blaming them,"
Silalahi said at a seminar on Human Resources Productivity here
on Thursday.
Without the right attitude, he said, people will not give
police their proper respect. (bsr/03)