Tribratanews.polri.go.id – Jambi. A total of 196 homemade firearms captured by the Directorate of General Criminal Investigation (Ditreskrimum) of the Jambi Regional Police and the Regional Police of the ranks, and those handed over by the community were voluntarily destroyed in the Jambi Regional Police Headquarters yard.
Jambi Regional Police Chief, Pol. Inspector General Albertus Rachmad Wibowo directly attended the extermination activity accompanied by the Acting Governor of Jambi Hari Nur Cahya Murni and Kabinda Irawan David Syah and Regional Leadership Coordination Forum in Jambi.
The two-star general said the extermination was a follow-up to the Police's efforts to improve security and public order.
The Jambi Regional Police Chief said that there were many incidents involving firearms in Jambi Province. For this reason, the Jambi Regional Police Chief asked the Police in the Jambi Regional Police to appeal to the public if they control guns to voluntarily give them or hand them over to the nearest Police.
Then if the gun owners do not want to hand over and if caught, the threat is quite heavy according to the Emergency Law regarding possession of firearms with a life sentence.
The Jambi Regional Police Chief explained that the total number of assembled rifles known as short-range rifles that were handed over voluntarily by residents to the Jambi Regional Police were 197 units, consisting of 193 short-barreled short-barreled rifles, two short-barreled rifles and one long-barreled rifle. Mouser type 7.62 mm calibre, which is a historical weapon from the struggle era and one pcp caliber 5.5 mm.
The Jambi Regional Police Chief said that the Mouser type rifle would be handed over to the Jambi museum because the weapon is a historical relic of the Jambi people's struggle during the independence era.
"Something is interesting, there is a Mouser weapon, this is an original weapon made in a factory left over from the second world war, handed over by a Jaluko resident, according to him this weapon belongs to one of the Jambi heroes," explained the Jambi Regional Police Chief.
The Jambi Regional Police requested assistance from the Jambi Provincial Government through related agencies to help verify the truth of the firearms.
Later we ask for help to verify if this weapon really belongs to the Jambi hero. We are pleased to hand it over to the Jambi Provincial Museum. And for the time being, we are securing it until the verification is obvious, explained the Jambi Regional Police Chief.
Meanwhile, the 196 assembled rifles came from the Muaro Jambi Regional Police as many as two short-barreled rifles and one long-barreled mouser type 7.62 mm caliber.
Batanghari Police Station with 11 short-barreled rifles, West Tanjab National Police with seven short-barreled rifles and 5.5 mm caliber PCP, then East Tanjab National Police with one short-barreled rifle, Tebo Police with 13 small-barreled rifles. Long, Bungo Police as many as 13 short-barreled weapon and one short-barreled weapon.
Furthermore, the Merangin National Police had 106 short-barreled rifles and one short-barreled gun, while the Sarolangun National Police had 40 long-sleeved guns.
The guns were destroyed by cutting them into three parts.
