REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Police have formed a team to investigate the shooting to death of a policeman in Rasuna Said, Kuningan, Jakarta, on Tuesday, according to National Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo.

"This is a separate team from the one that is probing the three recent shooting cases in Ciputat and Pondok Aren," he said on Thursday.

Pradopo revealed that that the bullet shells found from the crime scene in Kuningan were different from those found at the locations of three shooting incidents that took place earlier. "In Pondok Aren and Ciputat, the bullets found were of 4.5 mm caliber, while in Kuningan 9mm-caliber bullets were found," he explained.

Pradopo stated that 11 witnesses had been interrogated in connection with the shooting incident in Kuningan, and a special team had been conduct in-depth investigation. "Apart from the team that is investigating the three earlier incidents in which the suspects are already know, we have set up another one to focus exclusively on the latest incident. We are still collecting information from witnesses," he said.

Besides basing its investigation on the Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) recording, Pradopo continued, the team was also examining the projectiles found from the crime scene. "We are not yet sure about from the type of gun from which these projectiles were fired. We are analyzing them all, including the CCTV recording," he added.

On Tuesday night, a police officer was shot to death while escorting trucks carrying construction materials. Sukardi, a police officer commissioned with the provost division of the National Police, was shot dead by an unidentified gunman in front of the Corruption Eradication Commission office at Rasuna Said Street, Kuningan, South Jakarta. The police are trying to develop sketches of the perpetrators' faces based on the information provided by eyewitnesses and images captured on CCTV cameras.

Sukardi left his wife, Tirta Sari (44 years) with three children, Dita Kardina Putri (19 years), Devi Novita (16 years), and M Adi Wibowo (8 years).

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