The Trend Of Public Complaints About Police Performance Does Not Increase, Kompolnas: Crowded Just Because Of Social Media

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JAKARTA - National Police Commissioner Poengky Indarti said that the trend of reporting public complaints against the performance of police officers this year, especially when the leadership of the National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo actually did not increase from last year.

It's just that, according to her, the current assumption is that the increasing public complaints about police officers can arise because they are crowded on social media.

"The trend of cases of police officers increasing and becoming crowded just because of social media. Because of social media, cases seem to increase. Still, from year to year until now, public complaints remain," said Poengky in a virtual discussion, Sunday, October 31.

Poengky explained that the complaints received by Kompolnas on the performance of the police from year to year ranged from 3,000 to 3,500 reports. This rate is no more than 1 percent of the total number of police officers in Indonesia.

Moreover, based on the clarification made, it turns out that not all the complaints submitted to Kompolnas are in accordance with what was reported. "When we clarify, some are true, some are not," said Poengky.

She then detailed, on average, of all the complaints that come in each year, 90 percent of which complain about the detective's performance. Of the detective performance complaints, 79 percent of them complained about poor service.

"For example, it was reported but then it was not immediately followed up with investigations. After that, the report has been investigated, the witnesses have examined it, but SP2HP has not been given," she explained.

"Then there are 15 percent, for example, allegations of abuse of authority, then related to wrong discretion, then there are also cases related to corruption," she said.