inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. In the operation to eradicate thuggery and illegal levies or extortion, the Indonesia National Police have arrested 8,217 people. Most of them were given coached [to not perform the same action] and the rest continued with law enforcement. "Of the 34 Regional Police who continue to carry out actions and operations regarding acts of thuggery and extortion, the total for thuggery is 4,107 and for extortion there are 4,110 people," the Head of the Public Affairs Division of Public Affairs Division mentioned at the National Police Headquarters, South Jakarta, Thursday (06/17). A total of 3,710 people who carried out acts of thuggery were coached and the rest went into investigation process. Meanwhile, 3,903 perpetrators of illegal levies were coached and the rest were continued with the legal process. According to the Head of General Information of Public Affairs Division of Indonesia National Police, those who are being prosecuted for committing extortion and threats that are troubling the community. Meanwhile, those are coached are given education and directed to work according to their duties and not to commit extortion again. The Head of the Public Affairs Division of Indonesia National Police said, for the area where the most perpetrators of thuggery and extortion were found is Java was. Such as in the provinces of Banten, East Java, Central Java, West Java and Jakarta. This, he said, was in line with the population in each region.