Officers Secure 60 Kilograms Of Frozen Tikus At Gorontalo Harbor

Joint officers checked the box containing frozen mice in the Gorontalo Ferry Port area. BETWEEN/HO-Humas Gorontalo City Police

GORONTALO - Joint officers from the Sector Police (Polsek) of the Gorontalo Port Area (KPG) and the Gorontalo Animal, Fish and Plant Quarantine Center secured 60 kilograms of frozen mice.

The frozen rat, said KPG Police Chief Ipda Reza Reyzaldy, was taken by one of the passengers on the Moinit Motorboat (KM) with the initials AM (45) from Banggai Islands Regency, Central Sulawesi, who was about to be taken to North Sulawesi for sale in the market there.

"When we checked, the owner of the goods could not show documents related to his luggage," said Ipda Reza Reyzaldy as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, March 20.

The frozen mice were packed in 5 boxes of Styrofoam, each containing 40 frozen mice weighing 12 kilograms.

Initially, he continued, joint officers were conducting inspections of luggage from passengers every time the ship arrived at the Gorontalo Ferry Port.

When they found the items that AM was carrying were frozen rats, the officers immediately asked about the completeness of the letter or document. However, AM could not show it.

As the applicable rules, all items such as meat and animals that will pass must be equipped with a certificate from the Quarantine Center.

"If it is without documents, it does not meet the requirements to be sent so that officers will not hesitate to secure the goods," said the police chief.

The discovery of 200 frozen mice without complete documents has been secured at the Gorontalo Animal, Fish, and Plant Quarantine Center Office.