Billionaire Police Officers

Is there a lesson to be learnt from the case of 15 police officers with inappropriately large bank accounts? Donations to the police must be made transparent.

August 2, 2005

IT is hard to believe that there are actually police officers with hundreds of billions of rupiah in the bank. Where did the money come from, given that monthly police salaries are never more than Rp10 million? To be sure, we cannot dismiss the possibility that the money could be a family bequest or inheritance. But all of the 15 police officers?

From the aspect of propriety alone, there is reason enough for the National Police Chief to have the

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