National Police undergo major reshuffle in detectives corps
National Police undergo major reshuffle in detectives corps
JAKARTA (JP): National Police chief Gen. Roesmanhadi installed
on Tuesday four brigadier generals as new directors of the
National Police Detective directorates of general crime,
corruption, narcotics and special crime.
The reshuffle in the police detectives corps, part of a major
reshuffle for middle-ranking officers at National Police
Headquarters, effectively demoted the four colonels who
previously held the posts.
"It's a decision of the National Police that the posts of
directors should go to high-ranking officers. After all, stars
should get priority," Roesmanhadi told reporters after the
installation of the new directors on Tuesday morning.
"It is not that the colonels have got bad posts. They are
high-level posts as well."
The new directors for the National Police directorates of
general crime, corruption, narcotics and special crime are
respectively Brig. Gen. Engkesman Rangkeong Hillep, Brig. Gen.
Timbul Silaen, Brig. Gen. James Daniel Sitorus and Brig. Gen.
Made Mangku Pastika.
Three of the former directors will serve as deputies to the
new directors. Col. Made Padmanegara is Hillep's new deputy, Col.
Fajar Istiono will serve under Silaen, while Col. Wilhelmus
Laturette will serve under Sitorus. Col. Ismaer Dalebang has been
appointed Riau Police chief.
Hillep formerly worked as a lecturer at the National
Resilience Institute, Silaen was the former East Timor Police
chief, Sitorus was deputy governor of the Police Academy and
Pastika was the director of the National Police Detective
economics division.
The economics division has officially become a part of the
National Police Detectives special crime unit.
Included in the reshuffle was National Police spokesman Brig.
Gen. Togar Sianipar, who was replaced in his post by Brig. Gen.
Erald Dotulong, former deputy to the National Police chief
assistant for operational affairs.
Togar, a former member of the National Police chief's expert
staff and a former Bali police chief of detectives, will move to
Bali in November to take up his new post as the Bali Police
chief.
In other reshuffles, Irian Jaya Deputy Police chief Brig. Gen.
Ayub Sawaki was appointed the new Special Inspector at the
Inspectorate General of the National Police; National Police
chief of Intelligence and Security Brig. Gen. Koek Soebono was
appointed new National Police chief of Intelligence; National
Police deputy chief of Intelligence and Security Brig. Gen.
Yohannes Wahyu was appointed the new National Police head of the
Security Agency; deputy assistant of public security for the
National Police chief Brig. Gen. Suprihadi Sahadi was named the
National Police chief of public security and the National Police
chief of On-The-Alert Unit Brig. Gen. Tarzan Tampubolon was
appointed to lead the new National Police Sabhara Unit. (ylt)