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View all search resultsThe Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) delivered on Monday a formal request to the National Police calling for the extension of the terms for 20 personnel seconded to the antigraft body
he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) delivered on Monday a formal request to the National Police calling for the extension of the terms for 20 personnel seconded to the antigraft body.
KPK spokesman Johan Budi said on Monday that although the antigraft body had officially sent all 20 investigators back to the National Police, it expected the police to extend their secondments.
Johan said the 20 investigators played an indispensable role in prosecuting graft cases.
“We requested the National Police to extend terms for at least 16 investigators. They are four heads of task forces and 12 investigators who are currently handling graft cases,” he said.
Johan said that the KPK would only approve of the recall of four police investigators whose secondments were due to expire in the coming weeks.
The National Police previously declined to extend the assignments of 20 of its personnel who were seconded to the KPK and ordered them to return to the force.
Government Regulation No. 63/2005 on the KPK human resource management system stipulates that KPK employees sign four-year contracts and the antigraft body can offer tenure after eight years.
In 2010, the National Police issued a rule requiring officers seconded to the KPK to renew their assignments on an annual basis. To comply with the new procedures the KPK asked for a renewal of the terms every year.
Johan said that the KPK was already understaffed even without the recall of the 20 officers.
“We aimed to have 300 investigators by 2010 but now we only have 78,” he said.
Johan said that the investigators were overworked with each officer handling between four and six cases. He added that the KPK was now hiring from within the institution to anticipate the police withdrawing all of their investigators.
“We are currently selecting 30 new investigators from among our own staffers. We aim to have 80 investigators,” he said.
Johan quashed speculation that the recruitment was part of an effort to promote independence from other institutions.
“We still need manpower from the National Police as well as other institutions,” he said.
The police’s withdrawal of the 20 officers was seen by many as punishment for the KPK’s prosecution of a graft case involving Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo, the chief of the National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas).
The National Police have pursued their own investigation of the Rp 200 billion (US$21.2 million) graft case involving the procurement of driving simulators.
The KPK has named four suspects: Djoko; Korlantas deputy chief Brig. Gen. Didik Purnomo; Budi Susanto, the director of PT Citra Mandiri Metalindo Abadi (CMMA), which won the procurement contract; and Sukotjo S. Bambang, director of PT Inovasi Teknologi Indonesia, the company that eventually received the contract from PT CMMA.
On Monday the KPK questioned Didik as a witness for Djoko at the Mobile Brigade detention center in Kelapa Dua, Depok, West Java, where he is being held by the National Police Criminal Investigation Division (Bareskrim) in relation to the graft case.
Bareskrim chief Comr. Gen. Sutarman recently requested the KPK to question Didik in the police facility. (cor)
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