Russia will destroy the Patriot air defense systems if the US provides them to Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Rossiya-1 television on Sunday.
"Of course, we’ll take them out, 100%!" he said in interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin on the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program.
The president said Ukraine so far doesn have these systems.
The Kremlin says US supplies of Patriot missiles to Ukraine, agreed upon during Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s trip to Washington, will not stop it achieving its military goals.
Vladimir Putin dismissed the weapon as old and said Russia’s missile systems would be able to shoot it down. “The Patriot air defence is outdated. An antidote will always be found … Russia will knock down the Patriot system,” he declared on Thursday.
The Russian president said “all armed conflicts end through negotiations” – implying that Ukraine would ultimately be forced to cede territory in exchange for peace. “The sooner this becomes clear to Kyiv, the better,” he added.
Putin also said stockpiles of Soviet-made weapons that former Warsaw Pact NATO members have been providing to Ukraine "are nearing exhaustion", and claimed Ukrainian military industries have been effectively knocked out.
In a call with reporters, Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said there were no signs from Zelenskiy’s meeting on Wednesday with the US president, Joe Biden, that Ukraine was ready for talks.
Peskov suggested the US was fighting a proxy war with Russia and was determined to keep going “to the last Ukrainian”.
During his first foreign trip since the invasion began in February, the Ukrainian president gave a defiant address to a joint session of the US Congress. He said his country would never give in to Russian aggression and that the White House’s continued support was key to ultimate victory.
On Thursday, Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, inspected frontline positions in occupied Ukraine, according to the RIA Novosti state media agency. A video showed him travelling in a convoy of Z-marked armoured vehicles, touring a barracks and talking to soldiers.
Shoigu congratulated soldiers and said: “Everything will be fine.” There was no evidence that the footage was shot in Ukraine, with only muddy fields in the background. Shoigu did not appear to be near the eastern city of Bakhmut, visited by Zelenskiy on Tuesday and the scene of bitter combat.
LPR forces say Ukraine deployed more troops to Svatovo area due to heavy losses
Officer of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) Andrey Marochko has said, citing intelligence data, that Ukraine deployed more troops to the Svatovo area due to heavy losses.
"A deployment of additional forces and means of Ukrainian armed formation has been detected toward the settlement of Svatovo," he told TASS.
Marochko said that move by the Ukrainian command was forced because of "mortality and sanitary losses exceeded the estimated figures, and the fire means turned out to be ineffective". He said on Friday that Russian forces were conducting flexible defense near Svatovo.
The commander of volunteer special forces unit Troya who goes by the call name Alabai told TASS earlier that Ukrainian command is seeking to cut the link between the towns of Svatovo and Starobelsk at any cost to human lives, even in elite units.
Jalan Asia Afrika Kota Bandung akan disulap menjadi ajang car free night di malam pergantian Tahun 2022 - 2023. Selain itu, polisi juga bakal melakukan rekayasa lalu lintas pada malam pergantian tahun nanti.
Kapolrestabes Bandung, Kombes Pol Aswin Sipayung mengatakan, rekayasa lalu lintas itu untuk mengurai kemacetan yang kemungkinan akan terjadi di malam tahun baru 2023 nanti, hari Sabtu, 31/12/2022.
“Jadi Jalan Asia-Afrika akan kita tutup sebagian kemudian Jalan Layang Prof. Muchtar Kusumaatmadja akan ada pengalihan arus,” kata Aswin.
Aswin mengungkapkan, pengalihan arus lalu lintas di Jalan Asia Afrika akan mulai diberlakukan sejal pukul 18.30 WIB. Sedangkan, pengalihan arus di Jalan Layang Prof Muchtar Kusumaatmadja akan dilakukan pada pukul 00.00 wib.
Aswin menuturkan, ruas Jalan Asia Afrika di Kota Bandung bakal diadakan kegiatan Car Free Night sehingga hanya diperuntukkan bagi pejalan kaki.
“Nanti akan kita lakukan rencananya Car Free Night, pada saat nanti menjelang malam hari, sekitar jam 18.30, akan kami tutup ruas Jalan di Asia Afrika, tidak semuanya ya, tapi sebagian besar Jalan Asia Afrika,” tutur Aswin.
Pihaknya akan kantong parkir di sekitar Jalan Asia Afrika bagi warga yang membawa kendaraan. Warga pun diminta untuk memarkirkan kendaraannya di mal ataupun gedung yang ada di sekitar Jalan Asia Afrika.
“Hanya pejalan kaki, yang berkendaraan kita upayakan tidak masuk dulu sepanjang pergantian tahun baru,” jelas Aswin.
Terkait pengalihan arus lalu lintas di jalan layang Prof Muchtar Kusumaatmadja dilakukan karena tempat tersebut sering kali dijadikan sebagai tempat berkumpul warga dalam menyambut pergantian tahun.
Aswin pun mengimbau pada warga agar tak berhenti di sekitar Jalan Layang Prof. Muchtar Kusumaatmadja saat momen pergantian malam tahun baru untuk mencegah terjadi kepadatan arus lalu lintas.
Kombes Pol Aswin Sipayung juga mengimbau kepada para wisatawan yang akan berlibur di Kota Bandung pada momen malam Tahun Baru 2023, sebaiknya merencanakan tujuan tempat parkir bagi kendaraannya.
Imbauan itu dikeluarkan sebab pihak Polrestabes Bandung tidak menyediakan kantung-kantung parkir terutama di pusat-pusat keramaian.
"Bandung ini memang sudah sedemikian rupa, harus maklum, yang berkunjung ke Kota Bandung harus menyiapkan dan merencanakan di mana parkirnya," kata Aswin.
“Kita menginginkan mobil kendaraan di bandung itu semuanya berjalan, tidak ada yang berhenti atau stuck, sampai crowded,” pungkas Aswin.
Kawasan ruas Jalan Asia Afrika, khususnya di Alun Alun Kota Bandung diperkirakan akan menjadi pusat keramaian saat malam tahun baru 2023.
Sebab, pada momen yang sama tahun-tahun sebelumnya , kawasan Alun Alun di Jalan Asia Afrika selalu menjadi pusat keramaian dan tempat berkumpulnya massa yang mengisi acara malam tahun baru.
Untuk itu, mengutip dari Antara, Kapolrestabes Bandung menyatakan akan memberlakukan Car Free Night (CFN) di kawasan tersebut.
Dengan demikian ruas jalan Asia Afrika akan ditutup pada malam akhir tahun 2022 tersebut guna mengantisipasi terjadinya kemacetan.
Selanjutnya, dengan pemberlakukan CFN maka aka nada pengalihan arus lalu lintas di sekitar kawasan Asia Afrika.
Selain di ruas jalan Asia Afrika, pengunjung atau wisatawan juga diprediksi bakal memadati wilayah sekitarnya, mulai dari Jalan Braga, Jalan Cikapundung Barat, Jalan Soekarno, hingga Jalan Lengkong.
"Yang jelas pada malam pergantian tahun, di Asia Afrika hanya yang boleh berjalan kaki saja," kata dia.
Didn't they have anything better to do?! Latest Twitter Files show how FBI inundated social media network with so many requests to tackle obscure accounts posting 'misinformation' that staffers had to triage Bureau's emails
The publication of Twitter Files kicked off on December 2 after a pledge by the social platform's chief executive Elon Musk to release the company's internal dialogue on the suppression of the New York Post's exclusive Hunter Biden laptop story.
The recently released sixth and seventh batches of the Twitter Files claimed that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had issued instructions to censor specific tweets and accounts for "violating" the company's terms of service.
Taibbi also revealed some emails that cite cases in which FBI executives had gone to extreme lengths to “validate theories of foreign influence” to justify the requests.
The writer accused the bureau of acting as "doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship."
"Encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency]. The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the [FBI's] Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which also facilitates requests from a wide array of smaller actors - from local cops to media to state governments," he tweeted.
Taibbi went on to argue that Twitter "had so much contact with so many agencies that executives lost track; is today the DOD [Department of Defense], and tomorrow the FBI? Is it the weekly call, or the monthly meeting? It was dizzying."
He claimed that "a chief end result was that thousands of official 'reports' flowed to Twitter from all over, through the FITF and the FBI's San Francisco field office."
When asked whether the FBI used back channel communications with Twitter employees to suppress or spike the laptop saga, the FBI officials said, "We did no request anything of the sort."
Taibbi has been releasing the Twitter Files in coordination with the platform’s new CEO Elon Musk and other journalists, including Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger. The disclosures have so far revealed information about suppression of reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story and efforts to remove former US President Donald Trump from the platform following the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
The remarks come after the FBI responded the Twitter Files disclosures by arguing in an interview with a US media outlet that it didn't request "any action" on specific tweets. According to the bureau, it didn't give Twitter employees "specific instructions or details regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story."
The content of the laptop, including the First Son’s naked photos and 18+ videos, is part of a federal probe into whether Hunter Biden violated US laws when he engaged in financial and business dealings in foreign countries during his father’s vice presidency between 2009 and 2017.
President Joe Biden has repeatedly dismissed any knowledge of his son’s shady business activities, with most US news outlets and social media companies successfully shielding him from the laptop-related revelations ahead of the 2020 presidential election campaign.
Earlier this year, however, a number of big newspapers made a U-turn, confirming that the laptop was authentic and that the damning information contained within the device was genuine.
Independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who published the latest installment, tweeted that the FBI appear to have inundated Twitter with so many requests to grapple with obscure accounts posting "misinformation" that the platform's employees "had to improvise a system for prioritizing/triaging them."
In the latest instalment of the Twitter Files the FBI appear to have inundated the social media network with so many requests to tackle obscure accounts posting 'misinformation' that staffers had to triage the bureau's emails.
In some emails revealed by Substack writer Matt Taibbi, there are also cases in which executives have gone to extreme lengths to 'validate theories of foreign influence' to justify the requests.
The Twitter Files began on December 2 after CEO Elon Musk promised to release the company's internal dialogue regarding the suppression of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story.
Musk released unvetted documents to Taibbi as well as fellow journalists, Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger.
Taibbi posted the latest stream of emails on Christmas Eve starting with a Bureau-issued statement from Wednesday - which doesn't refute allegations but instead criticized the files release.
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'The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public… It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency,' the statement read.
Taibbi took a swipe at the agency noting that they must think those who helped release the files as 'unambitious' if their 'sole aim' is to discredit the FBI.
'After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles. Why stop with one?' he said.
The Substack writer went on to say that the FBI had been acting as 'doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship.'
'Encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA,' he wrote.
'The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which also facilitates requests from a wide array of smaller actors - from local cops to media to state governments.
'Twitter had so much contact with so many agencies that executives lost track. Is today the DOD, and tomorrow the FBI? Is it the weekly call, or the monthly meeting? It was dizzying.
'A chief end result was that thousands of official 'reports' flowed to Twitter from all over, through the FITF and the FBI's San Francisco field office.'
Taibbi reveals regular Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) meetings with executives, FBI personnel and at least two OGA or 'Other Government Agency' a term Taibbi said was regularly used to describe retired CIA.
'The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm,' he wrote.
'The FITF meeting agendas virtually always included, at or near the beginning, an 'OGA briefing,' usually about foreign matters.
'Despite its official remit being 'Foreign Influence,' the FITF and the SF FBI office became conduit for mountains of domestic moderation requests, from state governments, even local police.'
In an email from San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan on Nov 5, 2020, the special agent is seen providing 'recent activities' on Twitter and putting a Minneapolis police Lieutenant in touch with the Twitter staffer.
Some 'threat' intel was also delivered by a one-way platform on which many communications were timed to vanish, known as Teleporter.
Taibbi makes note that in approaching the 2020 election, the FITF/FBI 'overwhelmed' Twitter with requests sending hundreds of problem accounts, some adorned with Excel attachments.
'Hi Stacia, FBI Baltimore identified these Twitter handles and tweets which appear to provide misleading information on time, place, or manner of voting in the upcoming elections,' an email from Chan read.
'We believe these may violate your terms of service and wanted to bring them to your attention. We would appreciate any feedback you have regarding this matter. Thanks, Regards Elvis.'
There were so many government requests, Twitter employees had to improvise a system for prioritizing and triaging them.
Twitter legal executive Stacia Cardille who is mentioned in several of the emails is seen trying to find a way to 'prioritize the reports they escalate' in an email Oct 28, 2020.
'We are having some issues with the backlog impacting our elections efforts,' she wrote.
'Although every #Tweep is valued, I believe it is likely that our reports are the most credible and most urgent – at least for the next week.'
FBI complaints in the newly released files were almost always depicted somewhere as a 'possible terms of service violation,' with the subject line tagged '(SF) (FBI).'
The New York FBI office even sent requests for the 'user IDs and handles' of a long list of accounts named in a Daily Beast article. Senior executives saying that they are 'supportive' and 'completely comfortable' doing so.
'It seemed to strike no one as strange that a 'Foreign Influence' task force was forwarding thousands of mostly domestic reports, along with the DHS, about the fringiest material,' Taibbi commented.
'Foreign meddling' had been the ostensible justification for expanded moderation since platforms like Twitter were dragged to the Hill by the Senate in 2017.'
However, executives were 'under pressure' to validate theories of foreign influence.
'After I reviewed the accounts, and found no links to Russia, I asked [redacted] on this ticket [redacted] and this was the answer: Thanks for tagging in the workflow. From my checks I could not find any indicators to suggest that the account [redacted] is Russian,' an internal Twitter email stated.
'Even the other phone linked accounts [redacted] does not have indicators to suggest it is a Russian proxy.'
The email goes on to say several other checks were made and that the company could 'find a stronger connection.'
'Going by the content and narrative coming out from the account it is definitely pro-Russian, and/or could be a Russian proxy,' the email states.
'I can brainstorm with [redacted] and see if we can dig even deeper and try to find a stronger connection.'
In a key email, news that the State Department was making a shaky public assertion of Russian influence led an executive, the same one with the 'OGA' past, to make a damning admission, Taibbi said.
'Due to a lack of technical evidence on our end, I've generally left it be, waiting for more evidence,' the executive said.
'Our window on that is closing, given that government partners are becoming more aggressive on attribution and reporting on it.
'I'm going to go ahead with suspension and marking the domain as UNSAFE.'
Translation: 'more aggressive' 'government partners' had closed Twitter's 'window' of independence' Taibbi quipped.
'Intel about the shady origin of these accounts might be true. But so might at least some of the information in them – about neo-Nazis, rights abuses in Donbas, even about our own government. Should we block such material?' he said.
'Many people wonder if Internet platforms receive direction from intelligence agencies about moderation of foreign policy news stories. It appears Twitter did, in some cases by way of the FITF/FBI.
'Often intelligence came in the form of brief reports, followed by long lists of accounts simply deemed to be pro-Maduro, pro-Cuba, pro-Russia, etc. … one batch had over 1000 accounts marked for digital execution.'
While the accounts may have shady origins, Taibbi begs the question, whether such material should be blocked from the public.
'The line between 'misinformation' and 'distorting propaganda' is thin. Are we comfortable with so many companies receiving so many reports from a 'more aggressive' government?'
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A members of Kurdish community waves the Kurdish communist flags next to a barricade on fire at the crime scene where a shooting took place in Paris, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Skirmishes erupted in the neighbourhood a few hours after the shooting, as members of the Kurdish community shouted slogans against the Turkish government, and police fired tear gas to disperse an increasingly agitated crowd. A shooting targeting a Kurdish cultural center in Paris Friday left three people dead and three others wounded. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
A gunman killed three people and wounded three others Friday at a Kurdish community center, a hair salon and a restaurant in central Paris in an attack that French officials said appeared directed at foreign nationals.
A 69-year-old man with a criminal record was taken into custody in the attack, which ignited neighborhood protests that led to violent clashes with police. Riot police officers fired tear gas and clashed with dozens of angry protesters who lit trash cans on fire and threw projectiles at police.
One of the wounded in the shooting was seriously injured, according to the Paris prosecutor, in the attack shortly before noon on Rue d’Enghien, a narrow street in the 10th Arrondissement of the French capital
The gunman “clearly wanted to target foreigners,” Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister, told reporters in Paris, though he said his “exact motivations” were unknown. He added that the gunman appeared to have acted alone.
Laure Beccuau, a Paris prosecutor, also told reporters that police were investigating a possible racist motive for the attack, which killed one woman and two men.
Protestors stand in front of riot police officers at the site where several shots were fired in the 10th Arrondissement of Paris on Friday. | AFP-JIJI
On Twitter, President Emmanuel Macron said: “The Kurds of France were targeted by an odious attack in the heart of Paris.”
French officials said the gunman had been arrested after shots were fired at a restaurant and a hair salon as well as at the Kurdish community center, and that he had been taken to the hospital after being slightly injured in the face.
Darmanin said the gunman, whom police did not name, was a French citizen who had never been flagged by French intelligence services and did not belong to any known far-right extremist groups. But he was a member of a shooting club and had “many” registered firearms, Darmanin said. The Paris prosecutor said the man, who lived in Paris, had a criminal record.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris said on Twitter that the Kurdish community had been targeted by “murders committed by a far-right militant,” but she did not provide details about the suspect.
Police in Paris investigate at the scene of a shooting on Friday that left three people dead and three others wounded. A 69-year-old suspect was wounded and arrested.
Lewis Joly/AP
“Kurds, wherever they live, should be able to live in peace and security,” Hidalgo said. “More than ever, Paris is by their side in these dark times.”
The Kurds are a large ethnic group in the Middle East who have no state of their own.
France was struck by large-scale Islamic terrorist attacks in 2015 and 2016, and, in the years that followed, by a string of smaller but deadly shootings and stabbings, often carried out by lone assailants.
Mass shootings remain rare, but there have been growing worries about far-right extremist violence. This month, far-right militants disrupted a left-wing political meeting in Bordeaux. Police also arrested dozens of far-right militants in Paris and Lyon this month over suspicions that they were planning violent attacks after a France-Morocco soccer game during the World Cup.
After the attack Friday, the Paris prosecutor’s office said that it had opened an investigation into murder, attempted murder, assault and violation of France’s firearm laws.
Beccuau said the suspect had been involved in several other criminal cases, but she provided few details about them.
He was convicted in 2017 by a court in Bobigny, a northern suburb of Paris, for illegal firearms possession, she said. The same court convicted him in June for an armed assault that occurred in 2016 and sentenced him to 12 months in prison, but he had appealed that sentence, Beccuau added.
In December 2021, the suspect was charged with racist armed assault after he attacked migrants living in tents near Bercy, a neighborhood in the 12th Arrondissement of Paris. He was arrested and placed in pretrial detention but was freed this month because he had reached the one-year limit of time he could be held without trial on those charges, Beccuau said.
The man was placed under judicial supervision and faced a number of restrictions, including having to undergo mandatory psychiatric treatment. He was also barred from possessing a weapon.
“There is no evidence at this stage to suggest that this man is affiliated with any extremist ideological movement,” Beccuau said in a statement.
One witness to Friday’s attack, who was identified only as Ali, told the BFMTV news channel that he had been walking down the street when he heard gunfire and turned around.
Bystanders gather behind the crime scene tape where a shooting took place in Paris, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. aMultiple people have been wounded and one person arrested after a shooting in central Paris on Friday, authorities said. Police cordoned off the area in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and the Paris police department warned people to stay away from the area. It said one person was arrested, without providing details. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
“We saw people running left and right,” he said. He then entered the nearby hair salon, where three people were wounded, he told the news channel.
Police cordoned off the area where the shooting occurred — normally a bustling street with many shops and restaurants — and left clusters of journalists and bystanders standing at the edges on wet pavement. But stunned members of the local Kurdish community quickly gathered, expressing sadness and then anger.
“I don’t understand; we are helpless,” said one Kurdish man in his 40s, who said he worked in a nearby restaurant and had been living in France for the past 20 years.
“The same thing happened 10 years ago, it seems that it will never end,” said the man — who declined to give his name out of fear for his security — referring to the killing in 2013 of three Kurdish activists in the same arrondissement of Paris, including Sakine Cansiz, a Kurdish separatist who was a founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
The party has fought a decadeslong insurgency against the Turkish state. Turkey, the United States and the European Union consider the PKK a terrorist organization.
Tens of millions of Kurds in the Middle East live mostly in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. After World War I, Western powers vowed to create a Kurdish state only to change their minds a few years later, leaving the Kurds as minorities in other states that have often sought to suppress their ethnic identity and language.
A range of groups have formed to fight or advocate for Kurdish rights, independence and autonomy over the decades, sometimes through violent insurgencies against their governments.
On the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, which runs perpendicular to the Rue d’Enghien, 50 or so men and a handful of women shouted angry slogans against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey — even though there was no information suggesting Turkish authorities were in any way connected to the attack.
Alexandra Cordebard, the mayor of the 10th arrondissement, said there had been no particular security measures in place at or near the Kurdish community center. “This neighborhood lives in perfect harmony, with a mix of communities living together,” she said.
The Kurdish Democratic Council of France, a group whose headquarters are at the same address as the cultural center, rejected French authorities’ hypothesis that the suspect was targeting foreign nationals in general but not Kurds specifically. The group suggested, without presenting any evidence, that Turkey was to blame.
“We are currently outraged by this situation,” said Agit Polat, a spokesperson for the Kurdish Democratic Council of France.
Darmanin said he had asked French security forces to heighten security at Kurdish community gathering places around the country, as well as at Turkish diplomatic sites.
Dirlantas Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Sambodo Purnomo Yogo saat mengecek mobil berpelat khusus RFY yang terobos jalur Busway, Rabu (15/6/2022) di Gedung Subdit Gakkum Ditlantas Polda Metro Jaya.(KOMPAS.com/Tria Sutrisna)
Subdit Pembinaan dan Penegakan Hukum (Gakkum) Direktorat Lalu Lintas Polda Metro Jaya, bakal menindak tegas pengemudi yang menggunakan lampu isyarat (rotator) dan sirene di kendaraannya. Sanksinya berupa penilangan.
Kasubdit Bin Gakkum Ditlantas Polda Metro Jaya, AKBP Hindarsono, mengaku pihaknya sedang gencar melakukan penindakan kepada pengemudi yang menggunakan rotator dan sirine di kendaraannya.
"Kami sedang melakukan razia terkait kendaraan roda dua dan roda empat yang menggunakan rotator," ujar Hindarsono, pada hari Jumat, 13/12/2022.
Sanksi tegas berupa tilang menanti pengemudi yang tertangkap tangan memasang rotator atau sirine. Berdasarkan Undang-undang, kendaraan pribadi memang dilarang menggunakan rotator dan sirine.
Hal ini seiring dengan kejadian baru - baru ini, dimana Satuan Lalu Lintas Polres Bogor menindak ambulans dengan stiker Partai Nasdem yang melawan arus sambil membawa iring-iringan dua bus di kawasan Puncak, pada hari Jumat, 23/12/2022.
Ternyata setelah pengecekan, ambulans yang menyalakan sirene dan rotator tersebut tidak digunakan sebagaimana fungsinya, melainkan untuk kepentingan pribadi. Petugas pun melakukan penindakan berupa penertiban kendaraan.
“Operasi Lilin ini operasi kemanusiaan lebih banyak pada pelayanan masyarakat yang akan melakukan perjalanan untuk mudik dan libur, serta beribadah,” ujar Aan, pada hari Minggu, 25/12/2022.
“Jadi fokusnya pada bagaimana memperlancar arus lalu lintas, namun kita juga melakukan penegakan hukum kepada pelanggaran yang potensial mengakibatkan kecelakaan,” kata dia.
Sebelumnya, Kasat Lantas Polres Bogor AKP Dicky Anggi Pranata menjelaskan, ambulans dengan nomor polisi B 1489 UKP ditindak saat melakukan rekayasa lalu lintas di Simpang Gadog.
"Memang kita tilang, ada beberapa kekurangan terkait berkas. Setelah dilakukan pengecekan, mobil itu merupakan mobil pribadi yang diubah jadi ambulans," ucap Dicky, hari Sabtu, 24/12/2022.
Sebagai informasi, hari pertama Operasi Lilin, Jumat (23/12/2022), didominasi oleh kecelakaan lalu lintas yang mencatat 114 kejadian.
Pada hari itu terdapat 18 orang meninggal dunia, 10 orang mengalami luka berat, dan 123 orang lainnya luka ringan.
Salah satu kecelakaan yang ramai dibicarakan adalah sebuah mobil yang tercebur ke laut di Pelabuhan Merak.
Kemudian, tiga mobil yang mengalami tabrakan beruntun di Tol Layang MBZ arah Jakarta ke Cikampek.
Aturan Sirine dan Rotator
Adapun tentang penggunaan Sirine dan rotator hanya boleh digunakan kendaraan tugas polisi, mobil tahanan, pengawalan, pemadam kebakaran, PMI, mobil jenazah, dan mobil dinas lainnya. Berikut penjelasan Undang-undang No. 22 Tahun 2009 pasal 59 ayat (5) Penggunaan lampu isyarat dan sirene sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (1) dan ayat (2)::
Lampu biru dan sirene digunakan untuk mobil petugas Kepolisian Negara Republik Indonesia.
Lampu merah dan sirene digunakan untuk mobil tahanan, pengawalan Tentara Nasional Indonesia, pemadam kebakaran, ambulans, palang merah, dan jenazah.
Lampu kuning tanpa sirene digunakan untuk mobil patroli jalan tol, pengawasan sarana dan Prasarana Lalu Lintas dan Angkutan Jalan, perawatan dan pembersihan fasilitas umum, menderek kendaraan, dan angkutan barang khusus.
Warga yang melanggar pemakaian sirene dan lampu rotator dikenakan ketentuan pidana sesuai dengan Pasal 287 Ayat (4) UU No. 22 Tahun 2009. Setiap orang yang mengemudikan kendaraan bermotor di jalan yang melanggar ketentuan mengenai penggunaan atau hak utama bagi kendaraan yang menggunakan alat peringatan dengan bunyi dan sinar sebagaimana dimaksud dalam Pasal 59, Pasal 106 ayat (4) huruf f, atau Pasal 134, dipidana dengan pidana kurungan paling lama 1 (satu) bulan atau denda paling banyak Rp 250.000.
