Padang, W Sumatra – The West Sumatra police apprehended 126 suspected drug dealers and carriers as a result of numerous raid operations in September 2020, according to West Sumatra Police Spokesperson Sen.Coms.Satake Bayu.
The suspects were apparently associated with 90 drug cases, Bayu told regional journalists in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra Province, on Saturday.
Forty 3 of the 126 suspects were apprehended by the West Sumatra Police’s anti-drug squad personnel while 83 others were nabbed by law enforcement officer from a number of cops precincts across the province, he said.
The drug raid operations performed in September also led to the confiscation of 2.1 kgs of crystal methamphetamine, 110 kgs of dried cannabis, and 5,708 ecstasy pills, he stated.
ANTARA kept in mind that drug rings keep targeting West Sumatra and lots of other provinces in Sumatra Island amidst the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic situation.
On Sept 27, for instance, the Pekanbaru city authorities arrested two drug dealers and took 13 kg of drugs from them.
The suspects, recognized as DE (36) and AS (21), had stashed 13 kg of crystal meth, 10,000 ecstasy tablets, and two FN and revolver handguns in a vehicle, Pekanbaru city cops spokesperson, First Inspector Hendriawan, said recently.
Indonesia stays under serious risk from drug dealers, who view the country as a prospective market. The worth of drug sell Indonesia is approximated to have actually reached nearly least Rp66 trillion.
Users of crystal methamphetamine, narcotics, cannabis, and other kinds of addicting drugs go beyond communities and socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.
With drug kingpins smuggling and trading drugs in the country over the past few years, the Indonesian government has actually continued to apply harsh punitive action against them.
National Cops Chief General Idham Azis recently highlighted that district courts in different parts of Indonesia had actually granted capital punishment to a minimum of 100 drug transgressors in the first half of 2020.
” Might they quickly be performed by firing teams to deter others,” he worried while seeing the National Authorities unique task force ruin 1.2 tons of crystal meth, 35 thousand euphoria pills, and 410 kg of cannabis in Jakarta on July 2, 2020.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo had actually likewise provided shoot-at-sight orders against drug kingpins.
Nevertheless, this has actually stopped working to discourage drug traffickers, who continue to deal with Indonesia as one of their main markets, even as Indonesian police continue their battle against them.
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