Anti-pickpocket police deployed

Anti-pickpocket police deployed

BANDUNG, West Java: More than 100 police officers, members of a newly established anti-pickpocket team, have recently been deployed at popular Idul Fitri celebration sites such as shopping and entertainment centers.

Police chief Didi Widayadi was quoted by the Antara news agency as saying on Thursday that the plain-clothes officers were also posted at the zoo, as well the Cicaheum and Kebon Kepala bus terminals.

Didi said that the city square Alun-alun, squeezed between a number of large shops, is usually visited by tens of thousands of visitors during the Moslem holiday of Idul Fitri. (swe)