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POLICE NAB 8,507 HOODLUMS DURING 17-DAY OPERATIONS
Jakarta, Nov. 19 (ANTARA) - Police have nabbed a total of 8,507 hoodlums in operations against street criminals conducted from November 2 to 18, 2008 in five provinces.
"Those proven guilty of breaking the laws will have to face legal process, and the rest (not guilty) will only be given good advice," head of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Unit Inspector General Susno Duaji said at a press conference at the National Police Headquarters here on Wednesday.
Of the total number of hoodlums rounded up, 886 were detained and the remaining 7,661 released after being given good advice.
During the rounding up operations, police never made wrong arrests and even managed to net criminals who had been wanted for a long time, he said.
The operations were held for 17 days simultaneously in North Sumatra, Jakarta, Central Java, East Java and Yogyakarta provinces.
Police also seized as evidence eight firearms, 88 sharp weapons, 59 motorcycles and 41 cellular phones during the raids.
The hoodlums who had been detained were suspected of having committed various crimes such as theft, robbery, gambling, and spreading nails on the roads.
Duaji said almost 95 percent of residents the police had polled had expressed satisfaction about the operations against hoodlums, although there were also some complaints and protests about the way the police had implemented the operations.
Earlier, the Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) expressed support for the police moves to fight street gangsters in the country.
"The IPW supports police efforts to eliminate unrest created by hoodlums. The operations should not be carried out in a certain period only but also on a routine basis," IPW chairman Neta S Pane said.
Pane said at the beginning of Gen. Sutanto's term as National Police Chief, police also launched similar operations but they lasted only two months. After the operations were stopped, street gangsters appeared again.
While supporting the police moves, IPW also raised concern that the operations could revive the practice of killing of hoodlums in extra-judicial ways, dubbed in local term as `Petrus' in the 1980s.
"Those proven guilty of breaking the laws will have to face legal process, and the rest (not guilty) will only be given good advice," head of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Unit Inspector General Susno Duaji said at a press conference at the National Police Headquarters here on Wednesday.
Of the total number of hoodlums rounded up, 886 were detained and the remaining 7,661 released after being given good advice.
During the rounding up operations, police never made wrong arrests and even managed to net criminals who had been wanted for a long time, he said.
The operations were held for 17 days simultaneously in North Sumatra, Jakarta, Central Java, East Java and Yogyakarta provinces.
Police also seized as evidence eight firearms, 88 sharp weapons, 59 motorcycles and 41 cellular phones during the raids.
The hoodlums who had been detained were suspected of having committed various crimes such as theft, robbery, gambling, and spreading nails on the roads.
Duaji said almost 95 percent of residents the police had polled had expressed satisfaction about the operations against hoodlums, although there were also some complaints and protests about the way the police had implemented the operations.
Earlier, the Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) expressed support for the police moves to fight street gangsters in the country.
"The IPW supports police efforts to eliminate unrest created by hoodlums. The operations should not be carried out in a certain period only but also on a routine basis," IPW chairman Neta S Pane said.
Pane said at the beginning of Gen. Sutanto's term as National Police Chief, police also launched similar operations but they lasted only two months. After the operations were stopped, street gangsters appeared again.
While supporting the police moves, IPW also raised concern that the operations could revive the practice of killing of hoodlums in extra-judicial ways, dubbed in local term as `Petrus' in the 1980s.
