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Jakarta Traffic Cops Say They Were Beaten by ‘Dictator’ Boss
Zaky Pawas & Bayu Marhaenjati | February 07, 2012

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tempodulu
9:45am Feb 8, 2012

beat the cr*ap out of someone and get transferred to paradise. Nice one!

didikarjadi
9:50pm Feb 7, 2012

Makes a change really to have the shoe on the other foot.

RuleBritannia
8:13pm Feb 7, 2012

If he believes in punching lazy officers, he's going to have a field day in Bali.... Bali appears to be the crown in the jewel as far as useless policing goes, good on him!

JohnnyCool
8:02pm Feb 7, 2012

"If considered serious enough, the case will be handed to public prosecutors.."

Really? Isn't "assault" a "crime" here? (rhetorical question).

And just what Bali needs - an arrogant, aggressive traffic cop named Bonaparte! Ha-ha-ha.


antifreeze
6:43pm Feb 7, 2012

'Rikwanto said Bonaparte had a reputation for arrogance, and (WAIT FOR IT.......) that violence would not be tolerated in the police force.'

Righto then.


Police say they are taking the claims of two traffic police officers seriously after they accused their boss of punching them because he thought they were lazing around while on duty.

The head of operations development at the Jakarta Police’s traffic division, Adj. Comr. Bonaparte Silalahi, was reported to internal affairs on Friday.

“He was reported by two traffic officers who said he attacked them. Of course we are going to process the report,” Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said on Monday.

The two traffic officers said their faces were bruised after the Thursday afternoon incident.

“He punched the two police officers,” Rikwanto said.

According to the two officers, Brig. E.D.N. (30) and First Brig. M.Y. (35), they were taking a break after three hours of directing traffic when Bonaparte spotted them beneath the Semanggi overpass in Central Jakarta.

Rikwanto says that according to Bonaparte, he called the officers over to explain themselves, but they ignored him.

“They were summoned by Bonaparte, but they walked away,” Rikwanto said.

“I don’t know whether that was because they hadn’t heard him or whether they were deliberately ignoring him.”

Enraged that his call had not been heeded, Bonaparte chased the two officers down and took them to task for what he saw as insubordination and laziness.

“The victim M.Y. was punched in the right eye. The same happened to E.D.N.,” Rikwanto said.

Rikwanto said Bonaparte had a reputation for arrogance, and that violence would not be tolerated in the police force.

“If officers don’t follow orders, we have ways of disciplining them, but not in this manner.”

Bonaparte has been transferred to Bali since the investigation began, although Rikwanto said this was unrelated to the incident. If considered serious enough, the case will be handed to public prosecutors, he said.

Bonaparte, he added, could be fired from the police force if a court handed him a prison sentence of greater than three months for the attack.