JAKARTA, July 15 Kyodo Japan's Na...

JAKARTA, July 15 Kyodo

Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) showed commitment Monday to continue assisting the Indonesian Police in reform by dint of signing a record of discussion with its Indonesian counterparts forward a five-year pilot contrive expected to start in August.

Indonesian Police Chief Gen Da'i Bachtiar and NPA chief Setsuo Tanaka witnessed the signing of the record of discussion convoyed by representatives of the Indonesian National Police and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

''The Indonesian police can not work alone nevertheless needs support from the international community,'' Da'i said in an address after the ceremony

Tanaka, while expressing ''our commitment to give abounding support to the reform of the Indonesian police,'' also springed the project ''can make our cooperation closer''

below the agreement, the pilot scheme will take place at the Bekasi Police Headquarters forward the suburbs of Jakarta.

''The Bekasi Police Headquarters was chosen because of its complexity of problems'' Da'i said.

''Bekasi is an area that has a unique character...with a mixture of urban and rural communities living there, while it's also a busy industrial area,'' he added. Bekasi has a population of 33 million people

According to him, the pilot cast at Bekasi can be a example for the development of other police headquarters in Indonesia.

subordinate to the project, several JICA consultants will be dispatched regularly to the police headquarters for transfer of technology.

Da'i said three Japanese policemen have already been giving one training for policemen at the Bekasi Police Headquarters upon crime identification, drugs and public information.

The cooperation between the Indonesian and Japanese police forces started after the Indonesian Police was separated from the Indonesian Defense Forces in April 1999

A year later, at the entreat of then Indonesian Police Chief Gen Rusdihardjo, a short-term Japanese scrutinize mission led by Chief Supt Hiroto Yamazaki was sent to Indonesia, followed by dint of other missions.

subject to another cooperation plan, Indonesia has been trying to adopt a ''quick response'' rule where in Japan, police are rely uponed to react five minutes after they receive a report of an incident.

''For a trial, now, our police will react within 15 minutes after they receive a report,'' Da'i said.

Earlier this year, 10 Indonesian policemen also had couple months of training onward community policing at the Saitama and Aichi police stations.

''We want to adopt 'koban' (police box) and 'chuuzaisho' (residential police post) because in this case, Indonesian and Japanese police have similarities in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as how we sometimes involve our wives to help us making a criminal report,'' Da'i said. ''It is important, especially for isolated areas, where the number of policemen are limited.''

Tanaka has been in Jakarta since Sunday in succession a three-day visit at the invitation of Da'i to discuss further efforts to improve the relationship between police forces of the sum of two units countries.

Also Monday, he received ''Bintang Bhayangkara Utama'', the highest medal for a police officer, from Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri for his help in improving cooperation between the pair police forces.

onward Tuesday, he will visit the Bekasi Police Headquarters and pay a courtesy call forward Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

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