Officers Thwart Methamphetamine Smuggling To Jembrana State Detention Center

Jembrana Police Chief AKBP Endang Tri Purwanto (left) together with Head of State Class II B Detention Center Lilik Subagiyono/ANTARA/Gembong Ismadi

JEMBRANA - Officers from the State Detention Center (Rutan) Class II B Negara together with the Jembrana Police Narcotics Investigation Unit, Bali, thwarted the smuggling of methamphetamine into the detention center.

"We received a report from the detention center that there were visitors who brought suspicious packages. Together we opened the package, it turned out that it contained methamphetamine," said Jembrana Police Chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner of Police Endang Tri Purwanto as reported by ANTARA, Monday, March 25.

The police chief said the methamphetamine was brought by ISW (39) which is located at Ketapang Muara Hamlet, Pengambengan Village, Negara District, by pretending to deliver clothes to an inmate on Friday (22/3).

From the package hidden in the folded clothes, officers found three plastics containing methamphetamine weighing a total of 300.01 grams.

"This is the disclosure of methamphetamine with the largest evidence in Jembrana," said Tri.

After arresting ISW, the Jembrana Police then developed this case by arresting the person who gave the prohibited items to ISW.

Through the surveillance camera footage (CCTV) along Jalan Wijayakusuma, which is the location where ISW received the methamphetamine, the police managed to identify two other perpetrators.

"Not long after, we arrested two perpetrators who handed over methamphetamine to ISW," said the Police Chief.

The two perpetrators were MW (54) from Pergung Village and KAD (27) from Delodbrawah Village. Both were arrested in Pergung Village, Mendoyo District, along with evidence of the car they used to deliver methamphetamine.

Meanwhile, Head of Class II B State Rutan Lilik Subagiyono said his party had fully handed over the handling of the case to the police.

According to Lilik, while on duty at the State Detention Center, this is the first time he has found the smuggling of illegal methamphetamine.

"We have handed over the disclosure of the shabu-shabu orders in the detention center to the police. We are ready to witness this case," he said.

The State Detention Center will further tighten the inspection of visitors and their luggage at the guard post.

"The examination of visitors and their luggage has become our permanent procedure, but with this incident we are even more vigilant," he said.

To prevent drug abuse in detention, Lilik said that his party routinely conducts urine tests on inmates once a month. During urine tests, all the results were negative or no inmates were found taking drugs

Contacted separately, Head of Sub-Section for Detentionary Services concurrently Public Relations of Class II B State Detention Center I Nyoman Tulus Sendeng said his party had proposed an award for officers who knew and reported the attempt to smuggle methamphetamine to the Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of Bali Province.

The suspects ISW, MW and KAD were charged with multiple articles, namely Article 132 paragraph 1 yo 114 paragraph 2 or 115 paragraph 2 or 112 paragraph 2 of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics with a threat of 20 years in prison.