inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. The Police, through the Food Task Force, will monitor food stocks, prices and the smooth distribution of essential commodities throughout 2021 to ensure the availability of staples is safe until the end of the year. Chief of the National Police Food Task Force, Brigadier General. Pol. Whisnu Hermawan explained that the National Police Food Task Force consisting of six Subsatgas and Regional Food Task Forces led by the Special Criminal Investigation Division of Regional Police in each province had carried out 104,948 preventive and preemptive activities to ensure availability, distribution, prices, law enforcement, and early detection. "Throughout 2021, the availability of basic ingredients is safe," he explained in Jakarta, Tuesday (12/28/21). Brigadier General. Pol. Whisnu Hermawan also said that the National Police's Food Task Force ensures the distribution of essential commodities is smooth and unimpeded despite the implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) at the time of the increasing spread of Covid-19. Based on the results of the supervision of the National Police's Food Task Force, basic food prices in the 2021 period were relatively stable. The price increase occurred in only three commodities. Such as cooking oil, cayenne pepper and chicken eggs. The Head of the National Police's Food Task Force added that the increase in cooking oil prices was caused by the production of raw materials (CPO) for cooking oil. Meanwhile, the increase in egg prices was mainly due to the market mechanism, namely, increased demand.