THE frightening image of the police is emerging once more. A local police chief in Bogor, West Java mercilessly beat up his subordinate over a trivial matter. The subordinate failed to comply on the personal affair of his boss son. This is a clear example of abuse of authority that is distancing the police from any sense of justice and which is, at the same time, frightening the public.

The senior police officer in question was Police Senior Commi