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)