Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad said on Monday that the National Police's plan to set up a special antigraft unit would prove useless.

"To combat corruption, the police should first improve their internal affairs. There is no need to create a special anti-corruption detachment," he said in Makassar as quoted by kompas.com.

The police force, he added, should have assisted the KPK, which has become overwhelmed with the high number of corruption cases it currently has to deal with.

The KPK now only has 40 to 60 investigators, some of whom are police officers assigned to the agency, while it receives 30 to 40 reports of alleged graft per day.

The National Police have formed a team to assess the establishment of a special antigraft detachment to step up the force's corruption eradication efforts. National Police security maintenance chief Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti said that the team would discuss the need for the unit and its structure.

"The detachment might directly report to the National Police chief or function as part of the National Police criminal investigations directorate," Badrodin said in Jakarta on Monday.

The proposal to form the detachment was first suggested by members of the House of Representatives Commission III overseeing legal affairs during the fit-and-proper test of National Police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Sutarman earlier this month.