Napoleon Bonaparte (born 26 October 1965) is an Indonesian police officer who last served as the Head of the International Division of the Indonesian National Police. Following his involvement in the Djoko Tjandra scandal, he was removed from office. He was brought to trial and sentenced to four years in prison. Early life and education Bonaparte was born on 26 October 1965 in South Sumatra, Indonesia. He graduated from the Indonesian Police Academy in 1988. Career Bonaparte began police service after graduating from the Indonesian Police Academy. While serving as Deputy Chief of Cengkareng Police in West Jakarta, Bonaparte was cast as Lieutenant Gusman, the main character of the soap opera Pedang Keadilan (The Sword of Truth), about the life of police officers, produced with the cooperation between the Indonesian National Police and Maheran Mukti Wiguna. Bonaparte received his first appointment as the head of the police resort of Ogan Komering Ulu Regency. Two years into his office, he was transferred to the South Sumatra Provincial Police as the deputy director of the investigation and criminal department. In 2009, Bonaparte received a promotion from the rank of Police Grand Commissioner Attendant to Police Grand Commissioner, and served as the director of the investigation and criminal department in the Yogyakarta Provincial Police. The directorate handled 97 cases in his first three months as director, including the discovery of 4,200 counterfeit gas stoves and 768 counterfeit gas cans in Sleman. At the end of his tenure in Yogyakarta, he initiated an operation aimed at countering the distribution of pirated and unlicensed software.

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“Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?”
— Letter to his uncle, Joseph Fesch (June 1791), as quoted in A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon. With Explanatory Notes (1884) edited by D. A. Bingham, Vol. I, p. 24
“France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.”
— Statement at Paris (23 January 1814)
“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”
— Statement of 1812, quoted in Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders (1978) by David Johnson
“Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.”
— From an alleged Letter of to his Minister of the Interior on the Poor Laws. Pub. in The Press, Feb. 1, 1868.
“‘Do you know,’ Napoleon once said to Fontanes, ‘what fills me most with wonder? The powerlessness of force to establish anything. There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the end, the sword is always conquered by the mind.’”
— Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967), essays selected and translated from the French by Philip Thody, p. 104
“His Imperial and Royal Majesty entered his palace at the Tuileries last night in the midst of his faithful subjects.”
— Le Moniteur Universel, March 22, 1815.

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Napoleon Bonaparte (born 26 October 1965) is an Indonesian police officer who last served as the Head of the International Division of the Indonesian National Police. Following his involvement in the Djoko Tjandra scandal, he was removed from office. He was brought to trial and sentenced to four years in prison. Early life and education Bonaparte was born on 26 October 1965 in South Sumatra, Indonesia. He graduated from the Indonesian Police Academy in 1988. Career Bonaparte began police service after graduating from the Indonesian Police Academy. While serving as Deputy Chief of Cengkareng Police in West Jakarta, Bonaparte was cast as Lieutenant Gusman, the main character of the soap opera Pedang Keadilan (The Sword of Truth), about the life of police officers, produced with the cooperation between the Indonesian National Police and Maheran Mukti Wiguna. Bonaparte received his first appointment as the head of the police resort of Ogan Komering Ulu Regency. Two years into his office, he was transferred to the South Sumatra Provincial Police as the deputy director of the investigation and criminal department. In 2009, Bonaparte received a promotion from the rank of Police Grand Commissioner Attendant to Police Grand Commissioner, and served as the director of the investigation and criminal department in the Yogyakarta Provincial Police. The directorate handled 97 cases in his first three months as director, including the discovery of 4,200 counterfeit gas stoves and 768 counterfeit gas cans in Sleman. At the end of his tenure in Yogyakarta, he initiated an operation aimed at countering the distribution of pirated and unlicensed software.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Napoleon Bonaparte (born 26 October 1965) is an Indonesian police officer who last served as the Head of the International Division of the Indonesian National Police. Following his involvement in the Djoko Tjandra scandal, he was removed from office. He was brought to trial and sentenced to four years in prison.

Notable quotes

“Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?”
— Letter to his uncle, Joseph Fesch (June 1791), as quoted in A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon. With Explanatory Notes (1884) edited by D. A. Bingham, Vol. I, p. 24
“France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.”
— Statement at Paris (23 January 1814)
“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”
— Statement of 1812, quoted in Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders (1978) by David Johnson
“Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.”
— From an alleged Letter of to his Minister of the Interior on the Poor Laws. Pub. in The Press, Feb. 1, 1868.
“‘Do you know,’ Napoleon once said to Fontanes, ‘what fills me most with wonder? The powerlessness of force to establish anything. There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the end, the sword is always conquered by the mind.’”
— Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967), essays selected and translated from the French by Philip Thody, p. 104
“His Imperial and Royal Majesty entered his palace at the Tuileries last night in the midst of his faithful subjects.”
— Le Moniteur Universel, March 22, 1815.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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