National Police Chief Sigit Will Review Decision On Ethics Trial AKBP Raden Brotoseno, But...

National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit at Commission III of the DPR RI (Rizky AP/VOI)

JAKARTA - National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo stated that he would review the decision of the National Police Code of Ethics (KKEP) trial which did not fire AKBP Raden Brotoseno.

Originally, the KKEP trial decided that AKBP Raden Brotoseno was retained as a member of the National Police even though he had been a recidivist in a corruption case.

"I, as the National Police Chief, ask for a review or conduct a judicial review of the decision of AKBP Brotoseno," Listyo Sigit told reporters at the DPR, Wednesday, June 8.

However, before that, Sigit said that he would first change or revise the Regulations of the National Police Chief (Pekap) number 14 and 19. This is because the regulations do not provide space to take certain steps towards the ethical trial decisions which are considered to have violated the sense of justice.

The decision to revise even this after coordinating with various parties. Starting from the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Kompolnas, and several criminal experts.

"We then discussed with the experts and we agreed to make changes or revise the district regulation. So at this time we are changing the district regulation," he said.

"We added a clause on the mechanism for reviewing the decisions that have been issued by the code of ethics trial," continued Sigit.

With this decision, Sigit hopes to answer the public's doubts about the commitment of the Police, especially in terms of taking action against corruption.

In addition, the National Police will also continue to be committed to being better and transparent in handling any cases.

"We will immediately appoint a new commission to review the decisions that have been issued and hopefully this will be a solution to deal with what are currently the aspirations of the people," said Sigit.

Brotoseno is a member of the National Police with the rank of Adjunct Senior Commissioner of Police (AKBP). He had served in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

In the course of his career, Brotoseno stumbled upon a corruption case in rice field printing in Ketapang, West Kalimantan.

Based on the results of the trial at the Corruption Court (Tipikor) at the Central Jakarta District Court in decision number 26 of 2017, Raden Brotoseno was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years in prison and a fine of IDR 300 million.

With this decision, Raden Brotoseno has been in detention since 2017. Until finally, he was released on parole since February 2020, and was released purely at the end of September 2020. He was released early because he received a parole program. Raden Brotoseno received a remission of 13 months 25 days.

After his release, Brotoseno returned to duty in the Bhayangkara Corps. Because, he was not fired from the Police institution. Based on the results of the professional ethics trial, Brotoseno was only sentenced to a demotion.