30,000 officers to be on New Year duty

30,000 officers to be on New Year duty

JAKARTA (JP): Greater Jakarta is to be protected by over
30,000 police officers during New Year celebrations, in the wake
of the Christmas Eve bomb blasts in major Indonesian cities,
including Jakarta, which left 16 dead.

City police spokesman Supt. Anton Bahrul Alam said on Friday
that while the Jakarta Police will mobilize an additional 3,600
officers for security during the New Year festivities, the elite
mobile brigade (Brimob) of the National Police are contributing
2,000 officers for the celebration.

"There will be other additions (officers) stationed at every
police precinct," Anton told reporters as quoted by Antara.

Despite the 17,000 officers in the capital who were on alert
during Christmas Eve, bomb blasts shook the capital and left
three dead.

Anton added that the Jakarta police had questioned 125 people
as witnesses in the bomb blast incidents. (ylt)