24 Criminal Cases In 2022 Become The PR Of The Bintan Kepri Police In 2023

Illustration of perpetrators of criminal cases arrested by the police. (ANTARA-Oky L)

JAKARTA - The Bintan Police have completed the handling of 112 criminal cases or 75 percent of the total cases that occurred throughout 2022. There are only 24 more cases that are still homework for the Bintan Police.

"The percentage of criminal handling this year decreased compared to 2021 which was 92 percent, or 105 cases out of a total of 114 criminal cases," said Bintan Police Chief AKBP Tidar Wulung Dahono, during a press conference on the achievements of the end of 2022 at his office, Bintan, Riau Islands (Kepri), Thursday 30 December, confiscated by Antara.

The Bintan Police Chief said that the number of criminal acts in 2022 compared to 2021 had increased by 32 cases, from 114 cases to 146 cases.

The increase in criminal cases occurred in line with the increasingly high dynamics of citizen mobility triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country which had subsided.

"Criminal cases in Bintan 2022 are dominated by motor vehicle theft and sexual abuse of minors," said the Bintan Police Chief.

Meanwhile, for the handling of drug cases in Bintan in 2022, he said, three cases increased to 28 cases compared to 2021 as many as 25 cases.

Likewise, the number of drug suspects arrested, of which in 2022 there will be 36 people, an increase of two people compared to 2021 as many as 34 people.

This year's drug evidence also increased dramatically, namely for the type of methamphetamine of around 7 kilograms compared to last year's 1 kilogram. Then the types of marijuana that were successfully secured this year were 17 kilograms compared to last year's 27 grams.

Meanwhile, the 2021 ecstasy pills were 199 pills, an increase of 63 pills to 262 pills in 2022.

"For happy five pills, there is still no circulation in Bintan," he said.

Furthermore, the Bintan Police Chief said that for 2023 his party would try more optimally in terms of protection, protection, and law enforcement so that criminal cases would decrease compared to before.

He said that this could certainly be realized with synergy and community participation with elements of security, the National Police and the TNI.

"Although the Bintan Police are still limited in terms of the number of personnel, we always go all out by empowering each function to maintain the security and security situation of the local community," he said.