Extortion With The Mode Of Spraying Perfume And Selling Drinking Water, Padang Bekuk Police 8 People In The Pasar Raya Area

Padang Police Chief Kombes Ferry Harahap when he interrogated eight perpetrators who were strongly suspected of thuggery and illegal levies in Padang/VIA BETWEEN

Padang City Police, West Sumatra, arrested eight people who are strongly suspected of having carried out acts of thuggery and illegal levies in the Padang Pasar Raya area on Monday at around 14.00 WIB. "We sent a joint team to Padang Raya Market to eradicate thuggery practices and illegal levies that the public has complained about," said Padang Police Chief Kombes Ferry Harahap in Padang, Antara, Monday, February 2. He said the perpetrators were arrested in a number of locations, including the Fountain roundabout, Jalan M. Yamin, and the back of the Tangsi which entered the Padang Pasar Raya area. The perpetrators' mode is to sell drinking water, spray perfume, and parking with coercion so that angkot drivers or residents give them money. After being arrested, the perpetrators were immediately taken to the Padang Police Headquarters and had received physical training at the police headquarters yard. "The perpetrators who were caught will be handed over to the Padang Police Criminal Investigation Unit for further processing and investigating any indications of a criminal act," he explained. Ferry said that the action taken was a follow-up to the public complaints he received while carrying out the "Friday Curhat" activity at Gadang Market, South Padang, Friday (30/12). "In the 'Friday Curhat' activity, residents complained to me that many practices of thuggery and illegal levies occurred, so today I followed up by deploying personnel to the field," explained the Chief of Police. In the enforcement operation, the personnel deployed were a combination of the Klewang Satreskrim Team and the Padang Police Intelligence and Security Unit. He emphasized that the action against perpetrators of thuggery, illegal levies and the like will be carried out regularly because there are many complaints from the public. "This operation will be carried out regularly. For perpetrators whose actions meet the elements of a criminal act, we will process them criminally," he explained.