Police Involved In Central Kalimantan Prosecutor's Office In Pursuit Of Fugitives For 7 Years Of Drug Cases

Illustration. BNN Gorontalo urine test residents who want to make a Drug Examination Result Certificate (SKHPN). (Between-Adiwinata)

Central Kalimantan (Central Kalimantan) Police intervened to hunt down Salihin alias Saleh, a convicted shabu dealer with a fugitive status of seven years at the Central Kalimantan High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati).

Head of the Central Kalimantan Attorney General's Office, Dodik Mahendra, said that Saleh, apart from being a DPO, was also included in the Adhyaksa Monitoring Center (AMC) in all Kejari and Prosecutors throughout Indonesia. Even agencies that are asked to help carry out the search also continue to hunt down the person concerned.

"Developments related to the convict Saleh are still being sought. The team from the Central Kalimantan Prosecutor's Office has coordinated with the Attorney General's Office for the Prosperity Team to hunt down the convict," he said in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, Monday, March 13, which was confiscated by Antara.

At different locations, the Head of the Central Kalimantan BNNP Brigadier General Pol Sumirat Dwiyanto stated that he was straightforward and firm, his party was ready if necessary to hunt down the convicts who are still DPOs.

"We are also ready to monitor, search and support the movement of the prosecutor's office as the executor. We are even ready to help the prosecutor's office to take action according to the rules," said the one-star general.

The Director of Drug Investigation of the Central Kalimantan Police, Kombes Pol. Nono Wardoyo, also emphasized that his personnel were also ready to search for Saleh, who was sentenced by the judge of the district court to be guilty in the drug case.

"We support what the prosecutor's office has done, especially since the institution has determined the DPO against the person concerned," he said.

He emphasized that although there has been no request for assistance to track Saleh's whereabouts from the local prosecutor's office, his personnel are also ready 1x24 hours to help find the person concerned.

"We are ready to help and conduct a search, if later friends make requests for help we are always ready so that the person concerned can be arrested," he said.

As previously reported, in the Saleh case, the Supreme Court (MA) has sentenced him to seven years in prison and a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to 3 months in prison.

The first to third summons sent by the Palangka Raya Kejari were not fulfilled. Instead of being willing to serve his sentence, he disappeared.

Saleh is known to be slippery from the criminal law of narcotics. Previously he was imprisoned for possession of unlicensed firearms, the results of the operation of the officers held at his residence, the Puntun area in August 2019.

He escaped the legal charges of drug cases because no evidence of illegal goods was found.