Crime rate falling: Police chief<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The National Police Chief Lt. Gen. Dibyo Widodo
\nsaid yesterday the number of crimes reported to police dropped
\nthis year and predicted armed robberies, drugs and student brawls
\nwould continue to color the country's crime next year.<\/p>\n
Speaking at an end-of-year conference Dibyo said the number of
\ncrimes dropped 6.6 percent to 150,806 cases from 166,474 last
\nyear.<\/p>\n
\"This means a crime was committed every three minutes and 29
\nseconds this year or 14 seconds less often than last year,\" the
\nthree-star general said.<\/p>\n
\"With people help, police professionalism, and the help of
\nother government offices, police managed to curb crime better
\nthan last year,\" Dibyo said.<\/p>\n
The conference was held at the National Police Headquarters.<\/p>\n
He said the police's ability to solve crime had increased 60
\npercent over the last five years.<\/p>\n
In terms of ranking the worst crime areas the East Java police
\nheadquarters reported the most crimes.<\/p>\n
East Java was handled 22,417 cases this year. Last year it was
\nalso the most crime prone province with 23,736 cases.<\/p>\n
West Java, with 20,401 cases was the second worst and Jakarta
\nwas third with 18,830 cases.<\/p>\n
On a per capita basis North Sulawesi was worst with 251 cases
\nper 100,000 people, Bali followed with 232 cases and East
\nKalimantan was third with 222 cases.<\/p>\n
Some big cases marked this year like the escape of jailbird
\nEdy Tansil in May, June's pedophile serial killings, the 27 July
\nriot, Central Bank's fraud in August and painting thefts in
\nSeptember. All these happened in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"Student brawls, bank customer and taxi driver robberies also
\nmarked the city crime this year,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Judging from this year's trend, Dibyo predicted armed
\nrobberies, drug trafficking (especially Ecstasy), and student
\nbrawls would still be prevalent next year.<\/p>\n
Dibyo said Ecstasy smuggling through Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta
\nInternational Airport, Bali's Ngurah Rai airport, post offices in
\nJakarta, Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya grabbed police attention.
\n\"The Ecstasy case suspect Zarina also caught the public's and, of
\ncourse, the police's attention.\"<\/p>\n
He said police arrested 39 people in 27 Ecstasy cases and
\nseized 337,090 pills, 18 capsules, and 2.3 kilograms of powder.
\n\"Two cases have been tried, 11 cases are in process, and 13 cases
\nare still being processed at the public prosecutors' office and
\none cases is still being investigated.\"<\/p>\n
He said some cases that hit newspaper headlines remained
\nunsolved and would become police 'homework', including the
\nkilling of Yogyakarta-based reporter Muhammad Fuad Syafrudin
\n(Udin) in August and the armed robbery on the Jagorawi toll road
\nin which Zainuddin Lesmana died in October.<\/p>\n
Yogyakarta police arrested a man over Udin's death but
\nreleased him because they could not legally detain him any longer
\nbecause the dossier on him was not complete.<\/p>\n
\"We will correct the dossier on the suspect, Dwi Sumaji, and
\nreturn it to the public prosecutor next year,\" Dibyo said when
\nasked about the possibility of finding a new suspect.<\/p>\n
To curb armed robberies, special cooperation with the military
\nwas needed to conduct operations against illegal gun owners.<\/p>\n
\"Police will develop the Pelajar Siaga (Student Alert)
\nprogram initiated by the South Jakarta Police precinct to other
\npolice precincts,\" he said.<\/p>\n
In special operations this year, police arrested 657
\nforeigners for violating immigration regulations.<\/p>\n
He said the number of traffic accidents plunged 6.8 percent to
\n14,912 from 16,003 cases last year.<\/p>\n
\"The number of traffic accident victims this year was 10,313
\nwhile it was 9,677 people last year,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"This year's toll road accidents amounted to 2,496 or 166 more
\nthan last year,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He said accidents caused Rp 23 billion (US$10 million) damage
\nthis year, a 21.13 percent increase from last year's Rp 18
\nbillion. (jun)<\/p>\n
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