682 thugs netted in one month<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): In an anti-hoodlum campaign, the city
\nadministration, in cooperation with the Jakarta Police, netted
\n682 thugs and shot dead 36 others across the city in a one-month
\noperation starting April 16, an official said.<\/p>\n
Deputy governor Abdul Khafi said on Wednesday that most of the
\nthugs not proven guilty of committing crimes had been released,
\nwhile some others were still awaiting for their cases to be dealt
\nwith by the police.<\/p>\n
He explained that among the 682 thugs arrested, 88 had been
\ndetained by the West Jakarta Police. Four of them had been
\nreleased for lack of evidence. The rest were still awaiting a
\nverdict. The West Jakarta Police also shot two thugs dead.<\/p>\n
The South Jakarta Police he said, shot dead seven thugs and
\narrested 135 others, of whom 67 were released for lack of
\nevidence while 51 were still being processed.<\/p>\n
The Central Jakarta Police shot three thugs dead and netted 83
\nothers, of whom 40 had been released. In addition, they also shot
\ntwo other thugs, who were currently being treated in hospital.<\/p>\n
North Jakarta Police shot one dead and arrested 59 others, of
\nwhom 10 had been released.<\/p>\n
And Jakarta Police shot dead 23 thugs and arrested 277 others.<\/p>\n
Kahfi added that the city administration had also netted
\n20,946 public order offenders in the capital during the same
\nperiod.<\/p>\n
They included beggars, pickpockets, street vendors, street
\nsingers, prostitutes, transvestites, street children and homeless
\npeople. Street vendors ranked first, with 7,791 people.<\/p>\n
Kahfi said many of those arrested were sent to the city's
\nsocial rehabilitation center in Kedoya, West Jakarta. Children
\nwere sent to their parents, arrested prostitutes were sent to a
\nrehabilitation center in Cipayung, East Java, while some others
\nwere sent to their hometowns.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the head of the city's security and order office,
\nHadi Utomo, said that the administration would send around 100
\nhomeless people to Sumatra to farm or work on plantations. (01)<\/p>",
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