Jakarta crimes becoming more violent: Hamami<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Hamami Nata says
\nthat although city crime rates have fallen in recent years, the
\ncrimes themselves are becoming more violent.<\/p>\n
He said the recent spate of bank customer and taxi driver
\nrobberies was serious.<\/p>\n
\"We are concerned about the ever increasing number of armed
\nrobberies in the city,\" Hamami said Saturday after assigning some
\n300 more officers to the city's mobile police brigade.<\/p>\n
The officers will help the city police precincts combat armed
\nrobberies, city police spokesman Maj. Nyoman Suriasta said
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
Nyoman said city police would also post undercover officers in
\npublic places, including banks, bus shelters and markets.<\/p>\n
There have been at least five major robberies in the last two
\nmonths of people who had just withdrawn money from their banks.<\/p>\n
During the robberies, the tires of customers' cars were
\nusually deflated, the customers threatened with machetes or
\nknives, and the robbers often shot into the air to scare away any
\nwould-be Good Samaritans. Some of the robbers rode motorcycles.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 11, a private firm employee was shot to death by one
\nof three robbers who made off with Rp 350 million (around
\nUS$148,000) on the Jagorawi toll road in Bogor.<\/p>\n
The victim, Zaenuddin, had just withdrawn Rp 650 million from
\nthe Bank BRI's Bogor branch.<\/p>\n
On Sept. 17, two unidentified men, one with a gun, robbed a
\nman of Rp 33 million in Cilandak, South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The victim, Fransiscus Theodorus, was intercepted by two men
\non a motorcycle when his driver stopped their Kijang van because
\nof a puncture. Theodorus, the manager of a language institute in
\nSouth Jakarta, had just withdrawn money from Bank BRI's Lebak
\nBulus branch.<\/p>\n
Hamami has again called on people to request police escorts
\nwhen withdrawing money from banks, Nyoman said.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 17, taxi drivers were robbed in Bekasi, South Jakarta
\nand West Jakarta. The robbers threatened their victims with
\nknives and one of the drivers was stabbed to death.<\/p>\n
President taxi driver Sjamsul Bahri, 40, was found dead in his
\ncar with 16 stab wounds in his chest. He was found in the remote
\nvillage of Setia Mulya, Taruma Jaya, Bekasi. The murderer is
\nstill at large.<\/p>\n
Hamami said earlier that at least 10 taxi drivers were robbed
\nand killed by passengers every year. (jun)<\/p>",
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