Jakarta – The Jakarta Police’s Traffic Directorate held a significant joint patrol along with personnel of the Indonesian Defence Forces (TNI) here on Saturday morning.
The joint patrol was led by Deputy Director of the Jakarta Authorities’s Traffic Directorate Adjunct Senior Commissioner (AKBP) Hari Purnomo, the Jakarta Police tweeted on its Twitter account @TMCPoldaMetro.
Patrol activities, which commenced at 22: 40 Western Indonesian Basic Time, were marked by a joint roll call at the Jakarta Cops Head Office.
” Deputy Director of the Jakarta City Jaya Police’s Traffic AKBP Hari Purnomo, S.I.K., S.H led the implementation of the joint massive military-police patrol at the City Jaya Regional Authorities Head office,” according to the statement on @TMCPoldaMetro.
Representative of the Jakarta City Jaya Authorities Senior Commissioner Yusri Yunus had actually previously mentioned that the activity was focused on reinforcing synergy in local security between the Authorities and TNI.
” Its nature is preventive by holding a large-scale joint patrol in between the TNI and Authorities, particularly the Jakarta Regional Armed Force Command and the Jakarta Police. We are doing it in a location viewed as being susceptible (to criminal activities),” Yunus kept in mind on Friday (Sept 4).
Patrol activities are being stepped up in numerous locations deemed being susceptible to crimes in East Jakarta.
In the meantime, on Aug 29, some 100 individuals attacked the Ciracas police headquarters in East Jakarta at around 1: 45 a.m. local time. During the attack, numerous centers at the station were attacked and vandalized, according to the authorities.
The mob also fired centers at around 2 a.m. local time, according to the East Jakarta Fire Details Service. Several automobiles and carts parked on the street were apparently harmed in the attack.
The attack was the second of its kind to have happened given that December 11, 2018, when a group of unidentified people attacked the police station.
Later, the Indonesian Army’s Armed force Cops Central Command named 29 soldiers as suspects for their alleged participation in the current attack on the Ciracas police station in which 2 police officers and a TV team suffered injuries.
In connection with this incident, as of Thursday, 51 army personnel were interrogated, of which 29 were called suspects and apprehended, Leader of the Army’s Armed force Police Central Command (Puspomad), Lt. Gen. Dodik Widjanarko, specified.
The military cops detectives continued their probe to uncover the case, he said.
Those associated with the morning assault were stimulated by the flow of false information. Spurred by the spirit of the corps, they then took part in the attack and vandalized numerous centers at the police headquarters, he noted.
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