Agency, police team up to uphold spatial planning law

The Jakarta Building Supervisory Agency (P2B) will team up with the National Police and the Public Works Ministry to equip 30 civil service investigators with skills needed to complete dossiers of violations of the 2007 Law on Spatial Planning.

“Jakarta has a high demand for trained officers, so the city will open a special class for two months starting in October,” P2B head Hari Sasongko told reporters on Wednesday.

He said the agency and the police would play different roles when it came to bringing the offenders to justice, with the agency’s authority limited to investigation and drafting dossiers.

According to the 2007 law on Spatial Planning, the civil service investigators should inform the police when they launch an investigation and cooperate with force if there is a need to arrest or detain suspects.
 
The civilian investigators should convey the investigation result to the prosecutors through the police.

The agency originally planned to cooperate with the police to administer the training, but it turned out that the Ministry of Public Works and the police had prepared such a program for all civilian investigators across the country.