Police promise drug crackdown
Efforts to focus on border with Timor Leste following recent arrests
Police Chief Brig-Gen Ricky Herbert Parulian Sitohang says drug gangs must be quickly identified (Photo by Albertus V. Rehi)
- Albertus V. Rehi, Kupang
- Indonesia
- August 28, 2012
Authorities in East Nusa Tenggara say they will tighten security along the land border with Timor Leste following the arrest of four drug traffickers last week in the provincial capital Kupang.
The four men traveled by bus across the border from Dili prior to their arrest in Kupang on Thursday when police seized five kilograms of methamphetamine known locally as sabu sabu.
“I have directed my staff – particularly intelligence officers – to detect drug distribution networks earlier and in a more direct way,” the province’s police chief, Brigadier-General Ricky Herbert Parulian Sitohang told reporters in Kupang yesterday.
The province is particularly susceptible to drug trafficking due to its easy access by land, sea and air from Timor Leste, he added.
The head of the National Narcotics Board in East Nusa Tenggara, Aloysius Dengi Dando, said drug-monitoring posts would be built at strategic points along the border and in areas where drug transactions are known to be high.
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The four men traveled by bus across the border from Dili prior to their arrest in Kupang on Thursday when police seized five kilograms of methamphetamine known locally as sabu sabu.
“I have directed my staff – particularly intelligence officers – to detect drug distribution networks earlier and in a more direct way,” the province’s police chief, Brigadier-General Ricky Herbert Parulian Sitohang told reporters in Kupang yesterday.
The province is particularly susceptible to drug trafficking due to its easy access by land, sea and air from Timor Leste, he added.
The head of the National Narcotics Board in East Nusa Tenggara, Aloysius Dengi Dando, said drug-monitoring posts would be built at strategic points along the border and in areas where drug transactions are known to be high.
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