Police livelihood ready for upgrade: Chief

Police livelihood ready for upgrade: Chief

JAKARTA (JP): National Police Chief Gen. Banurusman says
that the social welfare of police personnel and their families
must be improved in order for them to provide maximum service to
the public.

"If their social welfare is not given due attention it might
give rise to collusions between police personnel and other
parties," Banurusman said in his written statement at the
technical meeting of the police inspectorate general officials in
Cisarua, West Java, yesterday.

In the statement released by the National Police Public
Relations office the four-star general said that the improvement
of the social welfare conditions and other facilities needed by
the police personnel should be seriously and properly taken into
consideration.

Banurusman, therefore, asked the meeting participants, who
were officers in charge of overseeing the minimal police budget,
to further discuss and analyze the current problems in order to
correct them immediately.

He also urged his inspectorate general officers to keep
monitoring the leakage on the police budget.

He said police patrolmen, for instance, have been forced to
find money their own way to buy petrol for their mobile operation
due to the very limited funds available. (bsr)