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The death of 29-year-old West Jakarta Police officer Brigadier Wahyudi last Friday, of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, shocked a lot of people. It has also caused the West Jakarta Police to tighten its regulations regarding its officers’ use of firearms.
“Now, we will evaluate. We have conducted a survey of members of the police force who use weapons,” said West Jakarta Police Commander Bachtiar Ujang Purnama today, as quoted by Tribunnews.
To be able to carry a firearm, Bachtiar said each officer must have spent 1.5 years working after they’ve completed their police exams and been promoted to a certain level.
“The requirement is that an officer must at least be a brigadier to be able to use a weapon, and have worked for 1.5 years followed their exams,” he said.
After the evaluation, he said the police would revoke the firearms privileges to any members of the force found to be “problematic.”
“It is possible that those who are troubled will have their permission to use guns revoked,” Bachtiar said.
