National Police Chief Angry, Police Flying Helicopter Dismissing Demonstration In Kendari Will Receive Heavy Sanctions

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JAKARTA - Four Southeast Sulawesi Regional Police personnel who carried out low maneuvers by helicopter to disperse a protest mass in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi (Southeast Sulawesi) will be heavily penalized.

The executive for the daily Head of Public Relations of the Southeast Sulawesi Regional Police, Kombes La Ode Project, said the police were still being investigated. La Ode emphasized that they would immediately attend a disciplinary hearing and code of ethics for determining sanctions in the next few days.

"Of course heavy sanctions await," said La Ode as quoted by Antara, Thursday, October 1.

The sanctions that will be given to the police can be in the form of postponement of promotion, written warning, placement in a special place for 21 days to dismissal from the National Police institution.

In the initial examination, it was suspected that the pilot, copilot and two technicians had committed an offense by using low maneuvers to disperse the crowd. In fact, there is no rule to disperse the masses by taking such an action in the police and there is no order from the leadership to carry out such an action.

"The disbandment protocol is already in Perkap No.1 / 2009. There are six stages, apart from that the method of dissolving it is considered to have violated the SOP," said La Ode.

Previously, the National Police Chief, General Idham Azis, in a working meeting with Commission III of the House of Representatives (DPR) condemned the actions of the Southeast Sulawesi Regional Police to maneuver by helicopter to disperse the masses because this action was outside the applicable procedures to secure the crowd.

"Now you can't play the masking, so you can just check the propam. If it's still allowed, I'll stick it up," said Idham as broadcast on Parliament TV, Wednesday, September 30.

The National Police Chief emphasized that the police who were the pilot of the helicopter maneuvering at the Southeast Sulawesi Regional Police Headquarters, Kendari, have now been questioned. Idham explained that the dispersal of the masses by helicopter was clearly not in the applicable standard operating procedures (SOP).

"The pilot has been checked with Propam. That's just making it up. There is no SOP in the air, the one in Kendari," he said.