Formed By The National Police Chief 3 Weeks Ago, TIP Task Force Arrests 623 Suspects

Illustration of human trafficking (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The National Police's Trafficking Crime Task Force (TPPO) formed by the National Police Chief, General Listyo Prabowo, has worked for approximately three weeks. As a result, 623 people were named suspects.

"The number of suspects in the buttpo case is 623 suspects," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan, to reporters, Monday, June 26.

Then, the National Police's TIP Task Force also received 536 police reports (LP) from June 5 to 25. Some of the reports have been investigated. However, there are still those in the investigation stage.

Of the hundreds of cases that have been revealed, 1,789 victims can be saved. They were deceived by the perpetrators with various modes

Most of the modes used are luring people to work abroad. Of course, with a large salary.

In fact, from the cases revealed, there are also perpetrators who exploit children to make women commercial sex workers (PSK).

"The modes carried out are still 4. The first is 396 illegal migrant workers or household assistants, 9 crew members, 147 PSL, and 35 child exploitation," said Ramadhan.