Medan police beef up security

Medan police beef up security

MEDAN, North Sumatra: The terrorist attack in Legian, Bali
last weekend has prompted police authorities in Medan to boost
security in the country's third biggest city.

Medan Police chief Sr. Comr. Badrodin Haiti said on Friday
that 50 percent of police personnel in the city had been deployed
to safeguard public places including shopping malls, foreign
representative offices, and vital projects.

Badrodin said he had been asked by the local immigration
office to watch out for the arrival of 17 foreigners suspected of
being connected with security disturbances in the country.

He asserted that the 17 foreigners had not entered the
province.

"We are cooperating with the immigration office in monitoring
the presence of those foreigners," Badrodin told The Jakarta Post
on Friday. --JP