Blindly Attacking Officers With Machetes, Drug Dealers In Martapura Forced To Be Shot

BANJARMASIN - Members of the Banjarbaru Police, South Kalimantan, took decisive and measured action by shooting a drug dealer with the initials S for attacking officers with sharp weapons during his arrest.

"The officers intended to paralyze them because they were pressed after S fought back with a machete when he was going to be taken into custody," said Head of Public Relations of the South Kalimantan Police, Kombes Mochamad Rifa'i, in Banjarmasin, Antara, Wednesday, April 6.

The perpetrator, who suffered gunshot wounds, died when he was rushed to a nearby hospital on Sunday, April 3.

Rifa'i said the arrest of S by a member of the Banjarbaru Police Narcotics Investigation Unit was the result of the development of a narcotics crime case that is currently being handled.

Initially on Friday, April 1, the police arrested two people for drug abuse in Banjarbaru. From the statements of the two suspects, the officers again arrested another suspect with the initials MS.

From MS's confession, narcotics was obtained from S, so the police tried to arrest S in Martapura, Banjar Regency, until finally the shooting incident occurred.

For the shooting, the Propam Division of the South Kalimantan Police immediately conducted an investigation to ask for statements from witnesses, both from the family and the community around the location of the arrest.

"If there is a member's procedural error, of course strict action will be taken," explained Rifa'i.