Tribratanews.polri.go.id – Makassar. A total of 229 food packages were distributed to retired National Police and Police Warakawuri by Alumni of the Police Academy (Akpol) Force 1991 Bhara Daksa's South Sulawesi's Regional Police (South Sulawesi).
South Sulawesi Regional Police Chief, Pol. Inspector General Merdisyam symbolically handed over the food items to representatives of retired and Warakawuri of National Police in the lobby of the first floor of the South Sulawesi Regional Police.
The two-star general explained that the delivery of this social assistance was a form of empathy or sensitivity from the 1991 Alumni of Police Academy's Bhara Daksa Battalion to the retired police officers and warakawuri who were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
"This is a form of social sensitivity that is manifested in the form of social service to retired and National Police's Warakawuri. We must support them. So that we can keep the spirit of echoing the health protocol," explained the South Sulawesi Regional Police Chief.
Meanwhile, the Head of Public Relations of South Sulawesi Regional Police, Pol. Grand Commissioner E. Zulpan, said that the 1991 Police Academy's alumni throughout the country also held various humanitarian activities related to the Covid-19 response.
"Hopefully this activity can serve as a model as part of a social safety net tool for the community related to the prevention of COVID-19 to the community," the South Sulawesi Regional Police's Head of PR said.
"Hopefully during this pandemic we can do something so that we are all given health and safety until the COVID-19 pandemic is over. This is related to the provision of basic necessities to friends, especially from Papua in Makassar," explained the Head of Public Relations of South Sulawesi Regional Police.
South Sulawesi Regional Police's Head of PR said that the main target of this social service was for people affected by Covid-19 who needed assistance, including members of the National Police who had preceded their families
