Surakarta Police Deploy K9 Animal Unit To Ensure Security For Christmas Celebrations And Worship

Surakarta Police Chief Kombes Pol Ade Safri Simanjuntak. ANTARA/Bambang Dwi Marwoto.

SOLO - The Surakarta City Police is ready to provide security guarantees for the people who carry out Christmas 2021 celebrations and worship activities at churches in the Solo area, Central Java Province.

"The Surakarta Police, supported by Kodim 0735 Surakarta, will deploy 750 personnel to provide security guarantees for the 2021 Christmas and 2022 New Year celebrations," said Head of the Surakarta Police, Kombes Ade Safri Simanjuntak, during an event to review church preparations in Solo City, Thursday, December 16.

The police chief said that the Christmas Mass will be held in churches in Solo, on December 24 and 25, 2021. Before the Christmas Mass, on Thursday, December 23, he will carry out church sterilization by deploying a K9 unit with explosives detection qualifications from the Samapta Unit. Surakarta Police.

In addition, his party also coordinated with the Gegana Bomb Disposal Team of the Brimob Unit of the Central Java Police to carry out sterilization by combing all parts of the church room to provide security guarantees during the Christmas service in Solo.

"The K9 animal unit which has explosive capability to track in the area outside the church to anticipate the presence of explosives, while other personnel enter the church combing with metal detectors both in the congregation's seats and the altar area," said the police chief as quoted by Antara.

His party during the Christmas and New Year's 2022 security, said the Police Chief, with reference to the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri), Number 66 of 2021 and the circular letter of the Minister of Religion, the first that the church must form a Church Task Force that participates in guarding, supervising, guaranteeing, and enforcing The prokes during the Christmas service took place at the church. The first Church Task Force coordinated with the District and Surakarta City COVID-19 Task Forces, the second was also related to the implementation of other health programs, namely measuring the body temperature of the people before entering the church, regulating the flow of incoming and outgoing doors. churches that are not in one line in order to avoid crowds.

"The distribution of people or participants in carrying out Christmas Mass activities that have been divided by the church. Including us, we encourage the church to prepare masks for free for backup," he said.

The free mask reserves, said the Head of Police, to anticipate if there are people who might break the mask strap, they can be distributed immediately for free. Including maintaining a distance of checking together at least 1 meter distance must be applied during the implementation of Christmas worship.

"We also convey that there will be no communal meals in Christmas worship activities. We hope that all meal celebrations can be carried out in their respective homes with their beloved families," he said.