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Hotel
Security Improves
Police to Offer
Standard Accreditation
Bali
police will put forward a security accreditation
for star hotels in Bali in order to ensure
the security and safety condition of Bali
as an international tourist destination.
Chief of Bali police, General Mangku Pastika
said in the Bali Tourism Recovery Seminar,
in Santika Beach Hotel, Kuta, Tuesday (8/7).
“We’ve been working together with
chiefs of hotel security and discussed the
possibility to standardize on security system
for star hotels,” said Mangku Pastika.
 The
plan of security system accreditation that
is now being worked on will start from August
next month. During the accreditation, a
team lead by police will check and ensure
the level of adequacy of security personnel
and facilities of hotel. “Once the
accreditation is done, we will declare that
this and that hotel has fulfilled standards
of security system. It is good for Bali’s
promotion,” said Pastika, former chief
of multinational investigation of Bali bombing.
Accreditation will be done regularly and
continuously.
Pastika said, police would work closely
with hotel’s security so if something
happened in a hotel, police get access to
take action. “We want hotels to let
us know and show their building blue print
so we can take appropriate action to help
them in case something happened,” he
told the seminar participants. “We
have done a lot of thing to improve security
condition of Bali in order to answer question
of international community who has and will
always ask ‘are we safe and secure
if we go to Bali,” said Pastika.
The seminar and workshop held by Centre
for Tourism and Culture of University of
Udayana, in co-operation with USAID and
UNDP. Participants of the program were selected
people from public servant, professional
and businessman of tourism industry, and
NGO and community leader in total of 45.
“Pastika’s speech was very encouraging.
Security is becoming acentral issue in the
recovery program of Bali’s economic
and tourism industry,” said Dr. Agung
Suryawan Wiranatha, the chairman of the
seminar and workshop.
The workshop came out with strategic planning
and action program which will be handed
in to government, related private sectors
and NGO to realise so that Bali’s economy
and tourism business can make a recovery
soon. It will also be made public through
mass media like television, radio and newspaper
with target to encourage public aware of
the goal of Bali to develop quality tourism.
(BTN/04)
Tourist
Police and Security Precaution of Tourism
Area
 As
the main entrance of Indonesian tourism,
Bali will enhance the security standard
for the tourist. “In necessity, this
area should own the International security
standard,” said Bali Provincial Police
Chief Inspector General Mangku Pastika to
the mass media recently. For that aim, the
Provincial Police Office of Bali (Polda
Bali) organize a new task order that is
Tourism Pacifier Directorate with their
personnel of tourist police and beach police.
While, the Tourist Security Director, Bali
Provincial Police, Senior Police Adjutant
Commissioner, Drs. I Ketut Kadhiana, MBA
to Bali Travel News said, his side will
serve for a maximum service to each tourist
who visit for the tourism objects in Bali.
“ With 224 personnel, we are ready
to pacify the 184 of tourism objects in
Bali,” he said while inserted that
these personnel are less eventually, however
each of arose problems will be attach to
the entire police sector and police resort
in Bali.
Since it legalize in the year 2000, the
tourist police all set to work 24 hours,
especially at the crowded area that visited
by plenty of tourists. “We also built
a police station in tourist resort and served
to service the guest during their vacation,”
said Ketut Kadhiana who ever has a duty
in Northern Sulawesi.
It describe, his ally are cooperates with
Tourism Office and hotel owner/organizer
to serve solid service intensity that appropriate
with international standard. He also thanked
to ‘Casagrande’ (the Association
of GM Expat in Bali) in providing a free
English course to the tourist police officer.
“This is a positive collaboration,
because they supply a native speaker instructor
to us. I hope that none of miscommunication
can happen just only because the officer
does not understand foreign language,”
he explained clearly.
As a new department inside Bali Provincial
Police Department, Directorate of Tourism
Security, it surely acquired lack of supporting
facilities. “For case, the public role
and participation, especially the tourism
component, are supports very much for the
secure and comfortable condition during
the tourist visit in Bali,” said the
man who spring from Karangasem regency in
1953.
 Beach
Police
Reminds that Bali Island surrounded by beaches,
which also as the tourism attraction, it
necessary in deed to form a beach police.
Since the Beach Police unit had been legalized
by Head of Bali Provincial Police on 11
June 2003 at Kuta Beach, so it becomes the
only beach police patrol in Indonesia. “This
manner showed that Bali is really concern
about the security and safety of the tourist,”
said Ketut Kadhiana.
The duty and responsibility of beach police
is quite similar with other police officer.
However, the beach police are more focus
with the tourist security and safety conservation
on the beach. “If there are any tourist
who having a problem or get an accident
while swimming, the beach police will supply
for first aid. Surely, we cooperated with
‘balawista’ (the life guard) and
water police for the aid facilities,”
he said while attach that the other duty
of beach police is to give a widespread
information as possible about the tourism
object and also the beach zones, which one
is suitable and unsuitable for swimming.
The other job is to minimize the criminal
action that often happens to the tourist.
Lately, the beach police personnel are still
limited, about 20 personnel in each beach
of Kuta and 20 other personnel at Sanur
Beach. They work for about 12 hours since
7 am in the morning until 6 pm at noon.
(BTN/013)
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