Police Reveal 33 Cases Of Theft In Semarang In 2 Months, 4 Cars And 34 Motorcycles Seized

The perpetrators of the theft and stolen evidence were presented at the Semarang Police Headquarters, Wednesday. ANTARA/IC Senjaya.

The Semarang Polrestabes revealed 33 cases of theft in the last two months during Operation Brush Jaran Candi 2023 were held.

Semarang Deputy Chief of Police AKBP Wiwit Ari Wibosono said that of the dozens of cases 32 perpetrators had been arrested.

Meanwhile, the evidence confiscated were four cars and 34 stolen motorbikes.

Wiwit said there were several modes carried out by the perpetrators to trick officers in hiding or selling stolen goods.

One of them, he continued, was by selling parts of motorbikes separately.

"The motorbike was dieteleized, sold incompletely to trick the officers," he said in Semarang, confiscated by Antara.

He emphasized that the disclosure of various criminal acts of theft could not be separated from the presence of tens of thousands of CCTVs in the Semarang City area which had been connected to the Semarang Polrestabes command center.

Of all the police in Semarang City, he continued, the top three disclosures of this theft case were at the Genuk, Tembalang, and Gunungpati Police.