Penerapan Sanksi Pidana Terhadap Oknum Kepolisian Negara Republik Indonesia Satuan Lalu Lintas Yang Melakukan Pungutan Liar Terhadap Pengemudi Kendaraan Bermotor Di Wilayah Hukum Kepolisian Resor Kota Pekanbaru

Abstract

Law and lawlessness can be said as one unity that can not be separated from each other.
Amid the implementation of the functions, duties and authority of the Traffic Police itself there
are violations committed by some elements of the Police Traffic Unit is a Wild Charge. In fact,
individuals who perform these illegal fees are only given disciplinary sanctions and
administrative sanctions only. The purpose of writing this thesis, namely; First, the cause of
illegal levies committed by the elements of the Traffic Police Unit in the jurisdiction of the
Pekanbaru City Police Resort, Second, the application of sanctions to overcome the problem of
illegal levies conducted by the police of the Traffic Unit in the jurisdiction of Pekanbaru City
Police.
This type of research can be classified in sociological law research, ie research
conducted directly on the location or object of research that want to see between the correlation
of law and society, so as to reveal the effectiveness of law enforcement in society and identify the
unwritten law applicable to society. This research was conducted at Pekanbaru Pekanbaru
Resort Police, while population and sample were all parties related to the problem studied in
this research, data source used primary data and secondary data, data collecting technique in
this research by interview and literature study.
From the results of research problems there are two main things that can be concluded.
First, the factors causing the illegal levies committed by the elements of the Traffic Police Unit
in the jurisdiction of the Pekanbaru City Police Resort, among others, are from the personal and
from outside the personal person of the perpetrator. Second The application of sanctions to
overcome the problem of illegal levies conducted by the Traffic Police Persons in Pekanbaru
City Police Precinct is not applied due to many reasons such as small nominal, the regulations
used are internal Police regulations and illegal charges are considered not a crime. Suggestion
of the writer, Firstly, Applying criminal sanction based on Article 12 letter e, Law Number 20
Year 2001 Amendment to Law Number 31 Year 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption of
Criminal Police Persons who conduct illegal charges against motor vehicle drivers in the region
Law of Pekanbaru City Police Resort. Secondly, it is hoped that the existence of criminal
sanction can give a deterrent effect to the Traffic Police officers who conduct illegal charges in
order not to repeat the practice of illegal levies, especially in the jurisdiction of Pekanbaru City
Police. Third, ask the government to establish a clearer regulation or law to regulate the
practice of illegal levies, given the increasingly rampant illegal charges in Indonesia.
Keywords: Criminal Sanctions - Police - Wild Charges