Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Police will increase the community`s role in efforts to overcome social problems to prevent people from taking the law into their own hands, National Police Chief General Timur Pradopo said.

"The role of community members, community and religious leaders will be increased to prevent acts of street justice." he said when closing the police leadership meeting here on Thursday night.

"The decision is made based based on the results of an evaluation by regional police commands in 2011 regarding public expectations, priorities and inputs to deal with social problems and order and criticisms so far," he said.

He hoped the police`s performance in 2012 would be better and it would be evaluated in the middle of 2012.

"The role of the community must be optimized. The five-year program before was improving confidence in addition to eradicating terrorism and other problems involving the masses," he said.(*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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