Police indifferent to fighting drugs<\/p>\n
YOGYAKARTA: The provincial legislature blamed on Tuesday the
\nintensifying drug trade in the town on local police, whom they
\naccused of lacking initiatives to crack down on the dealers.<\/p>\n
\"Police have not yet performed well in clamping down the
\ndistribution of illegal drugs. Yogyakarta has become one of main
\ndestinations of drug trafficking in the country,\" legislator
\nTotok Daryanto from the National Mandate Party (PAN) told a media
\nconference after a hearing with Yogyakarta Police Chief Brig.
\nGen. Dadang Sutrisno.<\/p>\n
Totok was referring to the arrest of six police personnel who
\nwere caught red-handed consuming shabu-shabu (crystal
\nmethampethamine) in early September.<\/p>\n
\"How can the public trust the police if they are involved in
\ndrug dealing,\" Totok said.<\/p>\n
The police, three of them officers, had been questioned and
\nwere facing a military tribunal, according to Dadang.<\/p>\n
Dadang said police had completed an investigation into 33 drug
\nabuse cases up to Oct. 31 and had arrested 57 suspects. More than
\n160 grams of shabu-shabu, 27 grams of low grade heroin locally
\ncalled putaw, 20 kilograms marijuana, 280 ecstasy pills and 416
\nbarbiturates pills had been seized. (44\/emf)<\/p>",
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