Police start training for elections

Police start training for elections

JAKARTA: The Jakarta Police began a two-day training program
on Wednesday for 90,000 city-employed community unit guards on
how to handle possible disturbances at polling booths leading up
to the general elections.

"This is to show community unit guards how to handle
troublemakers in the field. Instructors will be sent to each
district to explain the procedures and train the guards," said
Jakarta Police general crimes chief Sr. Comr. Mathius Salempang.

Each police subprecinct chief will be responsible for the
training programs and will be assisted by instructors from the
city police.

"We will continue with the training on Friday (after
Thursday's national holiday) and hope they can master the
procedure by the end of the day," Salempang said.

There will be 44,792 polling booths in Jakarta and each booth
will be guarded by two community unit guards. The police said
earlier they had prepared 11,499 personnel to secure the general
elections in Greater Jakarta. -- JP