Mouth And Nail Diseases Are More Worrying, West Java Police Deploy Personnel To Check Livestock Transport Vehicles

BANDUNG - The West Java Regional Police (Polda) is also monitoring the emergence of foot and mouth disease (PMK) which has the potential to attack livestock by inspecting livestock transporting vehicles.

The Head of Public Relations of the West Java Police, Kombes Ibrahim Tompo, said the check included the completeness of the documents for animal transport vehicles to prevent the vulnerability of PMK transmission through unlicensed transportation.

"The police will carry out road checks by checking the completeness of the documents, but we will return the health checks to the relevant stakeholders, namely the Livestock Service," Ibrahim said as quoted by Antara, Friday, May 13.

According to him, the supervision was carried out based on the Telegram Letter Number STR/395/OPS/2022 dated May 11, 2022 to all levels of the regional police containing directions in the context of emergency handling of ruminant mouth and nail disease (PMK).

Even so, according to him, in the West Java Regional Police area there are no restrictions on livestock transport vehicles or restrictions on distribution. So far, his party has only directed every police station to be aware of this.

In addition, the West Java Regional Police will deploy Bhayangkara Community Security and Order (Bhabinkamtibmas) personnel to monitor animal husbandry so that FMD transmission can be prevented more quickly.

"His responsibility is indeed to check and coordinate related surveillance activities," he said.

Previously, the West Java Food and Livestock Security Service noted that there had been findings of PMK cases in West Java, including in Leles, Garut Regency as many as 25 beef cattle, 3 dairy cattle, and 5 sheep. Then, in Tasikmalaya there were 18 samples of cattle that tested positive for PMK, and 11 cows in Banjar City tested positive for 100 percent of PMK.