PENERAPAN DISKRESI OLEH SATUAN POLISI LALU LINTAS DI WILAYAH HUKUM KEPOLISIAN RESOR PAYAKUMBUH

Abstract

Discretion is the authority of the police to make a decision or choose different actions
in resolving issues of law violations or criminal cases are handled. Discretion became one of
the alternatives in criminal cases penyelesasian traffic. The increasing number of residents in
the District Fifty Cities affect the number of vehicles are also increasing proportional to the
increasing traffic violations that occurred, the crime of traffic recorded at the Police
Payakumbuh in 2015 to handle 132 criminal cases traffic and 88 case settled through
discretion. Implementation of discretion in a professional manner and in accordance with the
code of police ethics becomes a necessity for police to avoid abuse of office. Discretion
require an adequate level of intelligence in making decisions. In this case the human
resources (HR) law enforcement plays an important role of the contents of law products.
Keywords : Implementation-discretion-Traffic Police Unit