Deputy Chief of the Papua Regional Police Brigadier General Ramdani Hidayat stated in Jayapura on Friday that the police will also intensify its coordination to ensure security in the border region.
On Thursday (June 8), Hidayat visited the Skouw cross-border post (PLBN) at the Indonesia-PNG border region in Jayapura City.
"On Thursday (June 8), we conducted a visit to the border region and sought to strengthen coordination in a bid to eliminate human trafficking practices," he remarked.
During the visit, he said, the regional police conveyed its plan to station its personnel on illegal paths and also to deploy bloodhounds to detect forbidden goods.
"The Papua Provincial Police will keep bloodhounds on standby. If we cannot permanently station them, then we will just regularly bring them to the locations in question," he noted.
According to Hidayat, two bloodhounds will be dispatched according to the crossing hours on the paths from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Indonesian Standard Time (WIT).
"The Papua Police will also provide support by stationing personnel at the Skouw Local Police Station after it is officiated, to form the border sector police, akin to the one formed in Sota, Merauke District," he revealed.
Hidayat said the provincial police will station at least 15 officers at the police station.
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Translator: Tegar Nurfitra Putra Rofian
Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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