Denpasar Police receive award from Japan, Germany

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 12/11/2009 9:57 AM

Denpasar City Police chief Sr. Comr. I Gede Alit Widana said Friday that his office had received awards from Japanese and German police for its success in cases of a Japanese tourist's murder and a German national fugitive's arrest.

“[The awards] were the result of hard work by our personnel and was proof that we have quick response on every case,” he told Antara state news agency.

Widana said that Japanese police awarded his personnel for arresting David Goltar Wicaksono, who allegedly posed as a police officer and robbed and murdered 33-year-old Japanese tourist Rika Sano, less than a week after his alleged crime in October.

The German police awarded the Bali police officers for the arrest of murder fugitive Peter Ulrich as he arrrived in Ngurah Rai Airport in late October, after managing to escape from authorities in Singapore and Jakarta.