Tarakan, N Kalimantan – The National Narcotics Agency’s (BNN’s) North Kalimantan Office recently exposed a drug crime involving a Tarakan authorities precinct member, just determined as AL.
The agency’s investigators captured AL following the arrest of AR during a drug raid operation on July 5, Head of the BNN-North Kalimantan Workplace’s Police Department, Adjunct Sen. Coms. Deden Andriana, stated.
The 2 suspects were involved in a drug transaction behind a post office structure on Yos Sudarso Street in Tarakan City, he remarked.
The drug raid operation at a house on Cenderawasih Street of the Karang Anyar neighborhood, Tarakan City, likewise resulted in 63 little packs of crystal meth, weighing almost three kgs, being taken, he revealed.
AL admitted to BNN private investigators that he had recently gotten the drug bundle from a specific he had actually met outside Tarakan Plaza Hotel.
In response to AL’s alleged participation in a drug offence, Tarakan City Police Chief, Adjunct Sen. Coms. Fillol Praja Arthadira promised to take stringent action versus any cops workers caught violating the law.
Domestic and multinational drug dealers perceive Indonesia as a prospective market due to its large population and millions of drug users. Drug trade in Indonesia is valued at almost Rp66 trillion.
According to a report from BNN, some 50 drug use-related deaths take place daily in Indonesia. However, the fatalities have actually failed to discourage people from utilizing drugs.
In the face of the grave hazard posed by drug lords, BNN Chief Commissioner General Heru Winarko has actually pushed for capital penalty for those involved in drug sell the country.
Both BNN and the authorities have continued their war versus drugs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On May 19, 2020, under the command of Brig. Gen. Ferdy Sambo and Sen. Coms. Herry Heryawan, the National Cops’s Red and White Special Task Force took 821 kg of crystal meth in Serang District, Banten Province.
On June 4, 2020, a drug raid in Banten Province assisted uncover another case involving the smuggling of 402.38 kg of crystal methamphetamine from the Middle Eastern area into Indonesia aboard a hired fishing boat.
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