Still In COVID-19 Pandemic And Emergency PPKM, A Number Of Youths Racing Wildly In Cilandak South Jakarta Were Arrested By Police

Police have arrested nine teenagers who are suspected of trying to do illegal racing on TB Simatupang street, South Jakarta, Saturday, July 10. (Antara Photo)

JAKARTA - Still in the atmosphere of the COVID-19 pandemic and Emergency PPKM, a number of youths were caught using public roads for illegal racing. Their actions were arrested by officers from the South Jakarta Metro Police who arrested nine teenagers who had gathered and were suspected of being involved in illegal racing on TB Simatupang street, Cilandak.

The Cilandak Police Precinct Patrol Officer, First Police Inspector Junaedi in Jakarta, Saturday, explained that the youths were taken to the South Jakarta Metro Police to undergo the process of prosecuting traffic violations or ticketing.

The new big boy (ABG) was taken to the police station at dawn on Saturday. They were arrested when the South Jakarta Metro Police and Cilandak Police were patrolling around TB Simatupang street, as reported by Antara.

The area is currently being brought to the attention of the police after the night of Thursday 8 July beating a member of the Police, First Police Inspector Adjutant Suardi, when he dispersed an illegal race on the same road.

The police then arrested eight people, three of whom were named suspects, namely Michael aged 26, Anastasia (21), and Gabriela (24).

The other five are still being examined further by investigators and are currently still witnesses. Police are also looking for one person on the Wanted List (DPO) with the initials MAR, who is 18 years old.

One of the teenagers who was taken to the South Jakarta Metro Police, namely Talip, admitted that he knew the perpetrators of the beatings who entered the DPO. He also knows where the DPO workshop often modifies his motorbike.

The police will intensify surveillance, including illegal racing, when the government restricts mobility on the highway in the Emergency PPKM and the COVID-19 pandemic is still going on. The police appealed to all parties to comply with the rules during this period of restriction so that the transmission of the virus could be reduced.