PENEGAKAN HUKUM TERHADAP PELAKU YANG MELAKUKAN TINDAK PIDANA PEMERASAN DI WILAYAH HUKUM KEPOLISIAN RESOR KOTA PEKANBARU

Abstract

Extortion is an action that often occurs in people's daily life activities, extortion
can occur with various backgrounds and certain motives. Extortion in Dutch apersing
and in English is called blackmail is a common crime. The word extortion in Indonesian
comes from the root word "squeezing" which can have the lexical meaning of "asking for
money and other types with threats".
Type of research this can be classified into types of research sociological,
because the study’s author lan gsung conduct research into the location or field poiny
that in carefully in oerder to provide an overview as complete and clear about the
prablem that ivestigated. Research is conducted in police of the Riau police while the
population and the sample is a whole party that is associated with a problem that
investigated in the study of this source of data that is used primary data secondary and
the data tertiary tecnique of collecting the data in the study is to interview and study of
literature.
From the results of the study, it can be concluded that law enforcement against
the criminal case of extortion in Pekanbaru is still taking legal action in the form of an
investigation or investigation to determine the suspect. The process of resolving the crime
of extortion, namely: the first with the investigation process, by collecting information
and a collection of documents or evidence, the second by carrying out a case title, the
third if in the implementation of the case title that the incident is a criminal act then an
investigation is carried out by taking or collect evidence, examination, confiscation,
search, arrest and detention. Meanwhile, the obstacles faced in law enforcement against
the criminal act of extortion that occurred in the jurisdiction of the Pekanbaru city resort
police were the lack of witnesses in handling cases of criminal acts of extortion so that it
hindered the investigation process and Weakness in proving through words or threats by
mouth making it difficult to prove. So the effort in overcoming the criminal case of
extortion is to complete the evidence based on Article 184 of the Criminal Procedure
Code in the form of: witness statements, expert statements, letters, instructions, and
statements from the defendant.
Keywords: Law Enforcement – Domestic Violence – justice