New secretary at crime investigation office

JAKARTA (JP): City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Dibyo Widodo installed Lt. Col. Edi Darnadi, 44, as the new secretary of the city police crime investigation directorate yesterday, replacing Lt. Col. M.D. Primanto.

Edi is a former head of the economic crime section of the directorate.

In a speech, Jakarta Crime Investigation Directorate chief Col. Nurfaizi, who represented Dibyo, said he hoped that the new official would be able to solve the numerous problems that the directorate is currently facing.

Primanto has been pursuing studies at the Indonesian Armed Forces School for Staff and Commanders for the past month.

Edi, formerly chief the North Jakarta police precinct, is one of only a few senior detectives in the city police force.

Married with three children, Edi graduated from the Indonesian Armed Forces Academy in Magelang, Central Java, in 1974.

He was formerly chief of the Depok police precinct. (bsr)