Pekanbaru, Riau – The Riau authorities confiscated 36 kgs (kg) of crystal methamphetamine within 2 weeks and arrested 4 drug carriers, consisting of a law enforcement officer, Riau Cops Chief Inspector General Agus Setya Imam Effendi specified.
Some 20 of the 36 kg of crystal meth, or locally known as sabu-sabu, were taken during a drug raid in Rupat Island, Bengkalis District, on Oct 12, he was quoted by ANTARA as saying in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau Island, on Monday.
The remaining 16 kg, packed in 16 bags, were confiscated from 2 suspects, including a police officer, identified as IZ, as an outcome of a drug raid operation on Oct 24.
The police officer was shot at and consequently continual gunshot wounds on his back after trying to leave the regional police officers’ raid, he mentioned, adding that he received the drug package from Malaysia and intended to trade it at a number of areas around Riau.
The Riau police investigators continue to chase after another suspect, supposedly a drug lord. While highlighting and acknowledging his group’s effective fight against the drug traffickers, Effendi expressed thankfulness to neighborhood members, who had voluntarily provided tip-offs to the cops.
The cumulative war on substance abuse and addiction in Riau Province must be waged on a more aggressive and fierce scale by taking into consideration the truth that some 2,100 of the 3,200 detainees are closely related to drug cases, he highlighted.
Speaking in connection with the involvement of polices in drug criminal activities, ANTARA kept in mind that in February 2020, a police officer from Bengkalis District’s cops precinct was arrested along with 3 other suspects for trading a 10- kg-drug bundle and 60 thousand euphoria pills in Dumai City.
Indonesia remains under serious risk from drug dealerships, who view the nation as a potential market. The worth of drug sell Indonesia is estimated to have actually reached at least Rp66 trillion.
Users of crystal methamphetamine, narcotics, cannabis, and other types of addicting drugs transcend communities and socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.
With drug kingpins smuggling and trading drugs in the country over the past couple of years, the Indonesian government has actually continued to apply harsh punitive action against them.
National Cops Chief, General Idham Azis, just recently pointed out that district courts in various parts of Indonesia had actually granted capital punishment to a minimum of 100 drug transgressors in the very first half of 2020.
” Might they soon be carried out by shooting squads to deter others,” he stressed while bearing witness to the National Authorities special task force damage 1.2 tons of crystal meth, 35 thousand euphoria pills, and 410 kg of marijuana in Jakarta on July 2, 2020.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo had also issued shoot-at-sight orders against drug kingpins.
However, this has failed to deter drug traffickers, who continue to deal with Indonesia as one of their primary markets, even as Indonesian police continue their fight against them.
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