E. Java Police to deploy 60 sharpshooters, Idul Fitri exodus
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 08/22/2011 2:35 PM
The East Java Police plan to deploy 60 sharpshooters to Idul Fitri exodus routes.
“We are preparing 60 sharpshooters, 20 will be stationed at the Pantura northern coastal highway, 20 others will go to the southern coastal highway and the remaining 20 will go to another,” East Java police chief Insp. Gen Hadiatmoko said Monday in Surabaya as quoted by Antara.
He said the sharpshooters were stationed at locations prone to crimes.
Hadiatmoko said the sharpshooter roll-out was part of a police operation named 2011 Semeru Ketupat. More than 1,000 police officers, military officers, transportation agency officers, public order officers and firefighters are involved in the operation.
