Roesmanhadi vows tough sanctions for police leaks
Roesmanhadi vows tough sanctions for police leaks
JAKARTA (JP): National Police Chief Gen. Roesmanhadi will take
tough action within the week against any of the 11 high-ranking
National Police officers currently being questioned as suspects
in the recent Timor car scandal, National Police spokesman Brig.
Gen. Erald Dotulong said on Wednesday.
"Let's not make a big deal about this," Erald told reporters
at his office on Jl. Senjaya, South Jakarta.
He said the questioning was connected with the recent National
Police purchase of 213 Timor sedans, which were not only without
invoices, but also allegedly purchased from car company PT Catur
Gatra Eka Perkasa (CGEP) at a marked-up price of Rp 90 million
per unit. The actual price is not more than Rp 51 million.
The alleged wrongdoing was first revealed by car company PT
Timor Putra National (TPN), the initial distributor of Timor
sedans.
"The special police monitoring team has found out that the
National Police budget data on police supplies, including
vehicles and ammunition, had been leaked to potential suppliers,"
Erald said, without elaborating whether the potential suppliers
included PT CGEP or PT TPN.
"Gen. Roesmanhadi will take strict action against the officer
or officers who leaked the information."
Erald, however, said that the monitoring team could not find
any evidence for the purchase of vehicles and ammunition at an
allegedly marked up price of Rp 4.53 billion, the cost which many
officers said should have been less than half the amount.
Erald said the suspects included National Police chief's
assistant for logistics Maj. Gen. Suprijadi, National Police
chief's assistant for planning Maj. Gen. Adang Daradjatun,
Logistics director Brig. Gen. Sistianto, Former Logistics
director Brig. Gen. Bambang Susetyo, Chief of the treasury agency
Brig. Gen. Darmadji SW, an employee of the planning division Col.
Edhi Susilo Hadisusanto and from the supply division Col. Djori
Ponto.
The monitoring team, established by Roesmanhadi on Nov. 2, and
led by National Police inspector-general Maj. Gen. M. Nurdin,
involves National Police officers from the divisions of law,
intelligence and detectives.
When asked if the National Police would nail Brig. Gen.
Bambang Susetyo, who had been replaced by Sistianto for reasons
unclear, Erald did not comment.
A National Police source said Bambang would most probably be
nailed because the team had enough evidence to prove that he was
the leak.
"Besides, they need a scapegoat. There are just too many high-
ranking officers here, who could never be declared suspects in
this case," the officer said.
In an official letter dated Oct. 26 this year, an expert staff
member working with the National Police chief Maj. Gen. Bibit
Rianto had stated that Adang and Edhi Susilo were most suspected
of leaking information on the National Police budget.
Break in
In an unrelated development, city police detectives and
traffic police officers refused to comment on a Sunday night
break-in and sweep at the Vehicle Document Service (Samsat)
division at city police, where several important documents at the
division's administration unit were found missing.
A number of officers at the city police's Public Service
Center revealed that the break-in was made possible because the
night guard, whom they refused to name, was not at his place on
Sunday.
"The division is actually very easy to break into, once there
is no one securing the place. The thieves broke in from the
back," one officer said. (ylt)