Polri-AFP Solidifies Strategy Against Human Smuggling

Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, Nov 7 (Antara) - The Indonesian police (POLRI) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are finalizing their strategy to handle human smuggling, in which transit zones have been discovered in various regions in Indonesia. "The current POLRI-AFP senior officials` meeting provides a momentum for strengthening the strategy to handle human smuggling," West Nusa Tenggara regional police chief Brigadier General Mochamad Iriawan said on the sidelines, while accompanying Deputy National Police Chief Commissioner General Oegroseno at the 6th POLRI-AFP SOM here on Thursday. Commissioner General Oegroseno led the Indonesian delegation at the meeting in Lombok, taking place from November 6 to 9, while the AFP delegation was led by Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan APM. Those attending the meeting will evaluate the effectiveness of the cooperation, based upon the decisions of the 5th SOM in Melbourne, Australia, as well as to propose cooperative activities for 2014-2015. The meeting also serves as a forum for expressing POLRI`s interests in overcoming cross-border crimes, human smuggling, counter-terrorism, cyber crimes and improvements in the abilities of POLRI DVI. Iriawan said the 6th SOM also provided a momentum for strengthening the work of the Cyber Crime Investigation Satellite Office laboratory (CCISO) of the West Nusa Tenggara Police Command, launched by POLRI and AFP on July 24, 2013. The CCISO laboratory is the development of computer-based training (CBT) and the special task force office for human smuggling (Satgassus for human smuggling). The CBT laboratory and Satgassus at the West Nusa Tenggara Police Command were officially launched on June 17, 2010. The construction of the CBT building and its development into CCISO was funded by the AFP and had been reported to be have cost up to nine million Australian dollars. The computerized system in the lab has one hundred modules of types of transnational and international standard crimes to make it easier for police to detect crimes in the region. The CCISO network in regional police commands has been connected to the monitoring center or the Jakarta Center for Law Enforcement Cooperation to analyze communications from criminal networks, such as in terrorism, narcotics crimes, money laundering and corruption. It is hoped the police could improve law enforcement efforts against transnational crimes, which have been increasing, with the use of this system. "There has been improvements in resources and we hope there will also be improvements in supporting facilities. We, the West Nusa Tenggara police command, will continue to encourage people living in the transit locations for human smuggling to support the police in the handling of this problem," he said.