Drugs Often Enter Through West Kalimantan Borders, Central Kalimantan Police Increase Raids

The Director of Drug Investigation at the Central Kalimantan Police, Kombes Nono Wardoyo (left-handed), explained the disclosure of drugs that had been disclosed by the local Police some time ago. ANTARA

PALANGKA RAYA - Directorate of Drug Investigation (Ditresnarkoba) of the Central Kalimantan Police (Kalteng) has prevented the entry of drugs to local provinces from neighboring provinces, namely West Kalimantan (West Kalimantan). Director of Drug Investigation at the Central Kalimantan Police, Kombes Nono Wardoyo, said that preventing drug entry from neighboring provinces was by increasing routine raids on the border of Central Kalimantan-West Kalimantan. "Most of the incoming methamphetamine types of drugs that have been revealed by the Kobar, Kotim, Lamandau, and Seruyan Polres have been sent from the Pontianak City network, West Kalimantan," he said in Palangka Raya, Antara, Friday, March 5. He said, in the first quarter, namely January, February to March 2023, the most drug cases were 25 cases of the Narcotics Directorate of the Central Kalimantan Police, 83 cases of the Kotim Police and 18 cases of the Kobar Police. "That means that the entry of drugs from the West Kalimantan route to Central Kalimantan is quite dominant. Therefore, we will continue to disclose related to drug trafficking that can be distributed to a number of regencies and cities in the local province," he said. According to him, routine raids on land routes through the border between Central Kalimantan and West Kalimantan must be tightened, and his party has ordered drug officers to continue to do this, thereby minimizing the crime of drugs. He also asked the Narcotics Head at each Polres ranks to re-examine and find out the drug network of suspects who had been arrested because it was possible that the big dealer or drug network from across provinces was known to the suspects. "By cutting off the network, of course, drug trafficking in Central Kalimantan can also be suppressed properly," he said. He said collaborating with other law enforcement officers, such as the Provincial National Narcotics Agency and the Ministry of Law and Human Rights as well as various other related parties in the area, so that the disclosure of drug trafficking can be carried out quickly and arrest big dealers. Nono also said that drug trafficking in Central Kalimantan has not only been targeted at people in the middle of the city, but has also targeted a number of mining companies and palm oil. "Indeed, the targets of the dealers and drug dealers are mining and palm oil companies. Therefore, we will continue to disclose so that the spread of drugs in the jurisdiction of the Central Kalimantan Police can continue to be suppressed," said Nono.

Previously, in late April 2023, the Kobar Police managed to uncover a methamphetamine drug network from Pontianak City with evidence weighing five kilograms, and secured four suspects to account for the possession of the methamphetamine type drug.