Papua Police Dispatch Team to Pegunungan Bintang

Papua Police Dispatch Team to Pegunungan Bintang

The Papua Police on Monday dispatched a team to Pegunungan Bintang to investigate the burning of a police station and a police dormitory in the regency.

Papua Police’s director of detective unit for special crime, Sr.Comr.Bambang Priyambada, said the dispatched team comprised special crime investigators, the police’s Internal Affairs Division (Propam) officials and one platoon of Mobile Brigade (Brimob) officers.

“They departed to Oksibil (the Pegunungan Bintang regency’s capital) this morning,” said Bambang as quoted by Antara news agency.

He said the police’s special crime investigators would examine the crime site to discover the early stages of the incident that led to the burning of the Pegunungan Bintang Police precinct and its dormitory.

A mob attacked and burned down the precinct on Sunday, which left two police officers and two soldiers injured. The incident began when a police officer, identified only by initials AK, was reported to have beaten Leo Almon, a local resident, who was allegedly drunk.

The police station and its dormitory was built by the Pegunungan Bintang administration at a cost of Rp 13 billion (US$1.3 million) and started functioning in 2010.

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