The Jakarta Police say they have made preparations to deal with poison-based terror attacks following the uncovering of a recent terrorist plot using cyanide-laced food delivered to East Java Police officers.
he Jakarta Police say they have made preparations to deal with poison-based terror attacks following the uncovering of a recent terrorist plot using cyanide-laced food delivered to East Java Police officers.
"I have obtained information from [counterterrorism squad] Densus 88. We have told all of our officers to prepare for poisoning attempts," Jakarta Police chief Ins. Gen. Tito Karnavian told journalists on Wednesday.
Poisoning as a terror-attack method against police officers has been attempted before.
He said the police had prosecuted several people who had attempted to poison police personnel during the period of 2009-2010. In one of the cases that occurred in that period, the police arrested a suspected terrorist for attempting to poison beverages in the canteen of a sub-precinct police station in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta.
Recently, the East Java Police issued a telegram in anticipation of a terror attack that might involve cyanide.
Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan stated that the Islamic State (IS) movement was behind the poisoning attempts against the police officers. "The cyanide threat came from the radical movement Islamic State," Luhut said as quoted by kompas.com. (ebf)
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