Jakarta Police Chief Meets Bawaslu over Election Security
15 February 2017 10:50 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Metro Police chief Insp. Gen. Mochamad Iriawan will meet the central Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) chairman and representatives of the House’s Legal Commission at Jakarta Police Headquarters today. Afterward, Iriawan will inspect security measures in polling stations.
Jakarta Metro Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Raden Prabowo Argo Yuwono said that Police chief would also join the meeting. “The agenda is election security measures,” he said at Jakarta Police HQ.
Argo said that Jakarta Police chief and the National Police chief will personally inspect four polling stations. “There are four TPS [polling stations], namely TPS Dharmawangsa, TPS Mega Kuningan, TPS Gambir where the President [votes], and TPS Setiabudi,” he said.
Police deploy 29,000 joint personnel to secure Jakarta election, comprising 23,348 cops and 5,500 Jakarta military district personnel.
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