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Police need to be tougher on corruption, ICW says
The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) said on Tuesday that the Yogyakarta Police did not handle corruption cases seriously, thereby
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he Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) said on Tuesday that the Yogyakarta Police did not handle corruption cases seriously, thereby. causing losses to the state.
Based on monitoring activity from January to October this year, the ICW's Emerson Yuntho said the Yogyakarta Police deserved a poor grade in solving large-scale corruption cases.
'The evaluation was based on the number of large-scale corruption cases that the police have handled, which is less than five cases annually,' he said.
Quoting a National Police chief regulation, Emerson said that in a year, a provincial police force should be able to handle five large-scale corruption cases while regional police forces should handle two.
Other police forces with poor grades were Jakarta and Bangka Belitung, Emerson said.
The ICW, therefore, proposed the National Police chief take stern action against police chiefs considered not serious in dealing with corruption cases in their respective jurisdictions.
'The National Police chief must not hesitate to replace such chiefs with other more credible figures,' Emerson said.
This was necessary, he added, because during his confirmation hearing at the House of Representatives, National Police chief Gen. Sutarman said he would prioritize graft cases.
Emerson also said that compared to the Bantul Police, the Yogyakarta Police lagged behind in dealing with large-scale corruption cases.
The ICW said the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) had been coordinating and supervising 10 large-scale corruption cases currently being handled by the Yogyakarta Prosecutor's Office and the Yogyakarta Police.
Responding to the evaluation, Yogyakarta Police corruption chief Comr. Aap Sinwan Yasin said he welcomed the ICW's evaluation.
'It's up to them to give us a poor or good grade because we have no idea what its standards are,' Aap said.
He added that apart from a number of small corruption cases, his office was currently handling a graft case worth Rp 1.8 billion (US$161,000) on alleged misappropriation in the extra-high voltage electricity line (Sutet) project in Bantul regency.
