Having 2 Factory Guns, The Perpetrators Of The Fraud Recruitment Of Candidates For Police Members Claim To Be Ready To Shoot Police When Arrested

The MR suspect was escorted by officers when he was released to the media. (ANTARA/Firman)

BANJARMASIN - The Jatanras Sub-Directorate 3 Team of the General Criminal Investigation Directorate of the South Kalimantan Police assisted by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police to explore the network of firearms acquired by MR (30). MR was involved in fraudulent recruitment of prospective members of the National Police which caused losses to 24 victims reaching Rp4,495,000,000. "Currently the Jatanras Team together with Bareskrim are still conducting searches, if there are developments, we will definitely convey it to the public," said South Kalimantan Police Chief Inspector General Andi Rian R Djajadi in Banjarmasin, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, October 18. Andi admitted that the findings of a number of firearms controlled by the suspect were quite surprising. The reason, he said, was that apart from homemade firearms, it turned out that there were two factory firearms. According to Andi Rian, an investigation into possession of firearms requires special handling so that it can be revealed to the initial source. He said the possession of firearms by civilians was very dangerous because it could be used for criminal acts. By the MR perpetrators, firearms were used for fraud by claiming to be members of the National Police to convince the victims. In fact, he said, the perpetrator admitted that firearms were always carried while traveling to protect himself or resisted if they were arrested by the police. It is known that during MR's arrest, police found two CZ CZ-10 C Caliber 9 mm firearms and 32 mm Indian Caliber firearms. Then two revolver-type homemade firearms and M7 "air softguns" and three magazines. Police also confiscated 39 32mm caliber bullets, 25 38 caliber bullets, four pistols, and one 7 CO helmet, including one live vest and one sharp anti-armed vest.

For the disclosure of the prominent case, the Kapolda gave high appreciation to the Director of Criminal Investigation at the South Kalimantan Police, Kombes Pol Erick Frendriz and the Head of Sub-Directorate 3 Jatanras Kompol Reza Bramantya and his team Resmob Macan South Kalimantan, who have succeeded in uncovering criminal acts of fraud accompanied by possession of firearms.