Viral Polantas Extortion Of Truck Drivers, Polda Metro: Not In GT Semanggi

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JAKARTA - Viral on social media traffic police (polantas) doing illegal levies (extortion) at toll gates. The target is the truck drivers.

This illegal act of traffickers was uploaded to the Instagram account @romansasopirtruck. In the video, a traffic police officer is seen standing right next to the toll gate pole.

Then, the traffic police officer showed a gesture as if asking for something to the truck driver who passed right in front of him.

So, the truck driver gave something allegedly money to the traffic police officer.

In fact, the video also gives a narration about the location of the incident at the Semanggi Toll Gate (GT).

The head of the PJR Traffic Directorate of the Polda Metro Jaya Kompol Sutikno, who confirmed the matter, said that he was still investigating the actual facts behind the video of the actions of the traffic police officers.

"Still under investigation (investigation, ed)," said Sutikno when confirmed, Friday, July 22.

However, regarding the location called GT Semanggi, Sutikno confirmed that the information was wrong. This is because the condition and structure of the Semanggi GT building are not as shown in the video.

"That's not the Clover Gate. There is no such Clover Gate," said Sutikno.