Police Name 5 Members Of The Ciamis Ormas Suspect For The Persecution Of Security Guards

Police have arrested a member of a mass organization from Ciamis Regency who carried out attacks and mistreatment of a security guard at the financing office at the Asia Plaza/ANTARA HO Tasikmalaya Police.

TASIKMALAYA - Tasikmalaya City Police have named five members of a community organization (ormas) from Ciamis Regency who carried out attacks and mistreatment of security guards at the ACC Asia Plaza Office, Tasikmalaya City, West Java, as suspects.

"After the examination, it was proven that they were jointly committing violence so that five members of the mass organization were named suspects," said Head of the Public Relations Section of the Tasikmalaya City Police, Ipda Jajang Kurniawan, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, March 27.

The police received information that a group of mass organizations from Ciamis Regency had visited the ACC financing office at Asia Plaza, Tasikmalaya, Tuesday (26/3) and carried out destruction and mistreatment of the office security guard.

The police, he said, immediately moved and secured as many as 13 people to the Tasikmalaya City Police Headquarters to undergo further legal examinations related to their actions which were considered disturbing the comfort and security of the community.

"We have arrested 13 people related to the incident," he said.

All members of the mass organization underwent examination by the Tasikmalaya City Police Criminal Investigation Unit and then succeeded in naming five members of the mass organization as suspects in the case of violence.

Those named as suspects are the initials DM (41) residents of Cipaku, WS (45), AS (46), and AA (27) the three residents of Kawali, and YS (40) residents of Banjarsari, Ciamis Regency, while other members are still witnesses.

Jajang said the suspect in the case would be charged with Article 170 of the Criminal Code regarding persecution and had been detained at the Tasikmalaya City Police Detention Center for further legal examination.

"They are threatened with a maximum imprisonment of five years and six months, for jointly committing violence against people," he said.

The perpetrator was an individual from a mass organization from Ciamis Regency or a neighboring area with the City of Tasikmalaya whose action was caught on CCTV and was seen committing acts of violence against security guards and destruction of the office.

Conditions at the scene, he said, are now safe, community activities in Tasikmalaya City, including the office, have returned to normal.