JAKARTA - The theft of farm products during the harvest season occurred several times in Garut Regency, West Java. Anticipating this, the police are intensifying patrols in agricultural areas.

"We will continue to increase patrols and supervision in plantation areas prone to harvest theft," said Head of the Public Relations Section of the Garut Police, Ipda Susilo Adhi in Garut, Monday, confiscated by Antara.

He said the Garut Regency area is an agricultural area of various types of food commodities which of course need attention from the police to ensure that the area is safe from the threat of theft.

Ahead of the harvest, he said, became the police's vigilance to increase patrols and appealed to farmers to always be aware of theft.

"In this patrol, we remind the public to always be vigilant so as not to become victims of theft," he said.

He conveyed that the patrol involved all police officers in the jurisdiction of the Garut Police to be ready to respond if there were reports or suspicious things in the residents' agricultural areas.

Like the incident of agricultural theft in Pasirwangi District, said Adhi, the perpetrators of the potato plantation area, Kampung/Village Padawas, Pasirwangi District were successfully revealed.

"The Pasirwangi Police managed to catch the culprit with the initials AM, who is known to have stolen 300 kilograms of potato harvest," he said.

The head of the Pasirwangi Police, Iptu Wahyono Aji, added that his staff received reports from farmers that the stolen potato commodity plantations worth Rp. 4.5 million.

The Pasirwangi Police, he said, immediately moved to carry out a series of investigations by processing the crime scene, and asking for witness statements which the perpetrators of AM (34), a resident of Pasirwangi, could finally find out.

"Evidence that was successfully secured included two sacks containing granola potatoes and one motorbike," he said.

As a result of his actions, the perpetrators must undergo a legal process to account for their actions.


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