Police officers held for drug

Police officers held for drug

PALU, Central Sulawesi: The Central Sulawesi provincial police
are questioning two police officers over drug charges.

The two police officers in question were Adj. Sr. Comr. Ndang
Supriatna, the deputy head of the provincial's police traffic
division, and Adj. Sr. Comr. Suko Haradi, the head of the
Criminal Analysis Division at the provincial police.

"They are being questioned after they were spotted recently in
a room at a night spot here where a drug party was being held,"
said Brig. Gen. Taufik Ridha, chief of the provincial police, on
Thursday.

Besides the two officers, the provincial police force also
nabbed three other police officers in the party.

They were First. Insp. Sentot, the deputy head of the
provincial police force's intelligence division, First. Insp.
Syamsu, the chief of intelligence section at the Palu police
precinct and First. Insp. Simangunsong, an officer with the
intelligence division at the Central Sulawesi provincial police.

The three confessed that they consumed shabu-shabu (crystal
amphetamine) in the party, but they quickly defended that it was
part of their undercover investigation, said Taufik.

However, Taufik said that they still violated the law, because
they had consumed drug, and therefore, they had to be punished.

The one-star police general said that the three had been
removed from their posts and had been given no positions. He did
not go into details whether the three would face legal
prosecution afterward. -- JP