Police clean up nails from street

Tue, 05/27/2008 3:16 PM  |  City

JAKARTA: Officers of the traffic management center at city police headquarters urge residents to report people throwing nails on the street.

Perpetrators have used the nails to stop motorists and rob them.

First. Brig. Taufik said police swept the streets for nails every two days with magnetic machinery but had not yet made any arrests.

"People can drop the nails easily when they cross the street without being seen," he said.

Police investigations indicate the perpetrators might pretend they are tire repairmen carrying mobile equipment, he said.

In a past case, a repairman appeared suddenly around 200 meters from the scattered nails, where the victims had to stop with a punctured tire.

In the last sweeping on Saturday, police collected 1.5 kilograms of nails on the Slipi overpass in West Jakarta and 0.5 kilograms near Bank Mandiri on Jl Sudirman, Central Jakarta. --JP

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