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Comments on other issues: Police chief orders rehab for drug users
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strong>Nov. 21, p4
The National Police chief has ordered police personnel nationwide to send drug users immediately to rehabilitation centers, instead of locking them up in detention.
National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti said in a classified telegram on Thursday that a team of doctors and legal experts were to assess whether a suspect was a drug trafficker or drug user.
If the team suggests that the suspect is only a substance abuser then the individual must be sent to a rehabilitation center pending their case dossier to be completed by the local prosecutor's office.
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Can the law be interpreted in different ways? Now, in a strong field of competitors, that would have to be the crappiest euphemism on offer in this issue. Furthermore, since when are those abusing their power here 'rogue' operators?
Finally, a one-time user deserving lesser rights than a regular abuser is once again a testament to the upside-down nature of morality and the legal system in Indonesia.
Once again, applause. Entertaining, if nothing else.
L. Millar
So if you use crystal meth regularly as an addict, you get rehab, but if you try it once, you get charged and go to jail.
That sounds fair, doesn't it? I wonder if these geniuses considered that trying it once is the gateway to becoming an addict later.
The two Budis themselves have tens of millions of dollars. They are narcotics cops, amassing vast fortunes off the suffering of ordinary Indonesians, running protection rackets for drug gangs and banking the millions. Indonesia is almost irredeemably sleazy, with the whole state rotten and ruled by greed.
It is like the world of a Shakespearean tragedy, with powerful villains/rulers dragging the entire society into a moral abyss.
Lasem Benny
So, instead of police directly extorting drug users, they are allowing 'appointed' doctors to do it instead, while maintaining their cut of the money.
A smooth move that is quite obvious. Even the chief says his officers regularly extort money from users/dealers, yet there has been no news of any police prosecuted for committing the crimes.
Obviously its kept quiet within the police force, after all, almost all police officers want a piece of the action, especially those with million dollar bank accounts that go unreported.
Willo1246
