Police officer arrested for drug dealing

Police officer arrested for drug dealing

Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A police officer at the Bekasi Police precinct, identified as
Comr. Nazarudin, was arrested last Friday by the North Jakarta
police for drug dealing.

Jakarta Police Internal Affairs chief Sr. Comr. Anwaruddin
said on Sunday that his division was now handling the case
involving Nazarudin, the intelligence unit chief of Bekasi
Police.

"We are still interrogating him so I can't talk much. We hope
we can reveal it to you soon," he told The Jakarta Post.

According to several sources, Nazarudin was arrested at the
Hai-Lai discotheque in Ancol, North Jakarta last Friday following
a tipoff from a drug-dealer nabbed earlier.

"The arrested drug dealer said that he got the drugs from
Nazarudin. So, we arrested him," a source at the North Jakarta
Police said.

Meanwhile, in Jakarta, a man identified as Haryanto Sembiring,
who police officers say is a big-time drug dealer, was arrested
with 22 ready-to-sell packages of putaw (low grade heroin) in his
house on Jl. Bendi Besar in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta over
the weekend.

South Jakarta police chief of operations Adj. Comr. Hendro W.
said Haryanto was a long-time player in the drug-trafficking
business and had been under police surveillance for nearly a
year.

"We have listed Jl. Bendi Besar and its surrounding areas as a
drug-prone area of Jakarta and Haryanto is one of the main
traffickers there," he told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.

After many reports from local residents, a group of police
officers raided Haryanto's house on Saturday. Several members of
Haryanto's group, however, had left Haryanto's house just before
the police arrived there.

"We will also investigate why they were able to get away. If
we find that one of our police officers gave them information
about our plan, then we will take action against that officer. If
we can capture the rest of the members, we can cleanse the area
of drugs," Hendro said.

The police are in the midst of an ongoing crackdown on drug
abuse in Greater Jakarta and launched dozens of raids over the
last two months.

While concentrating mostly on nightclubs, police also have
focused on cleaning up neighborhoods notorious for drug abuse and
trafficking, including Tanah Abang in Central Jakarta, Tambora
and Kota in West Jakarta and Depok in West Java.

The chief of the Jakarta Police's drug unit, Carlo Brix Tewu,
said earlier that his officers had managed to arrest hundreds of
people on drug charges in a host of discotheques and slum areas
since the special operation began.

"We have arrested over 600 people so far. We are now preparing
them for trial. We will continue to conduct similar operations in
the next few months," he told the Post.

Carlo said each police precinct had been given a quota of 15
drug busts that lead to a conviction, while each subprecinct was
given five.

Meanwhile, Depok police managed to arrest 11 members of what
they claim was a drug syndicate, and confiscated over two
kilograms of marijuana and several grams of shabu shabu (crystal
methamphetamine) in the Limo area of Depok on Saturday.

Limo subprecinct chief Adj. Comr. Ade Rhamat Idnal said that
the 11 suspects came from two different drug syndicates that have
long been operating in Depok.

The 11 suspects are Zulkifli, 19, Ferdi, 20, Herdi Silfa, 25,
Zefri Zuwandi, 26, Malik Bin Karto, 26, Indra Gunawan, 23, Rio
Ulhaq, 28, Adam Gure, 30, Zul Izmi, 22, Marsudin, 21, and Nasril,
18.