Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri has asked journalists not to cover the current debate on wiretapping, pitting chief detective Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji and officials of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), to avoid giving the public the wrong impression.
"I am afraid people will think the National Police and the KPK are standing on different sides of a river now, when actually we are on the same side," Bambang told journalists on Friday.
"Good coordination between the two institutions has been well established," he said.
The issue was uncovered when Susno protested wiretapping conducted by KPK officials before the death of Nasrudin, former director of PT Putra Rajawali Banjaran, last March.
Bambang had ordered his subordinates to commence a thorough investigation. He also said the National Police would discuss this issue further with the KPK.
"We will cross-check the facts, including finding out whether there was an order *to conduct the wiretapping*," he added.
Johan Budi of the KPK also said his office and the police maintained good relations and denied that both sides were trapped in disagreements over the wiretapping.
"We still share good partnership and coordination with the police and prosecutors in supervising and tackling corruption cases nationwide," Johan said Friday.
Commenting on Susno's allegation that KPK officials refused to deliver wiretapping materials following Nasrudin's death, Johan mentioned the KPK deputy chief Chandra Hamzah's statement that KPK officials had not known who had the phone numbers during the wiretapping session.
"We dealt only with what was on the record. Once we knew that the record had nothing to do with graft case then we stopped the wiretapping without knowing who owned the cell phones," he said.
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