the haze that is increasingly thickening befalls the Dharmasraya district of West Sumatra Province. This made the police from the Dharmasraya Regional Police intervene to help the community to reduce the negative impact it caused. many police officers were dispatched to various locations, especially the intersections of main roads such as the Sikabau intersection, the Punjung Island crossroad, the Rumbai River crossroad and the Koto Baru Dharmasraya crossroad. The police were deployed to distribute masks to road users such as two-wheeled and four-wheeled drivers whose windshields were open. In addition to distributing masks, besides that the officers from the Dharmasraya Regional Police also visited the ojek base stations to provide counseling related to the impact of haze and forest fires that occurred at This Riau Province. This counseling was conveyed to every motorcycle taxi driver, two-wheeled transportation so that later they would also share the information he got about the danger of the haze to the passengers and to other people at large.
According to the Dharmasraya Community Police Headquarters, the haze which began to disturb visibility of vehicles and disturb the public health has been felt by the Dharmasraya community since the past week, which was caused by forest fires that occurred in Riau Province. Although the source of the forest fires and their fires did not originate in the West Sumatra region, the impacts felt were quite large for the regions in West Sumatra.
so as not to have a major impact on students in the Dharmasraya District, the Dharmasraya district government has instructed all schools from elementary to high school to have their students dismissed by the school for three days.
Meanwhile, from the police's observation, many people have complained of respiratory illnesses or acute respiratory infections due to the thick smog that has hit the Dharmasraya region.

interview1: Iptu Armadison (Kasat Binmas District Police Dharmasraya)

help the community in anticipating that the community is not susceptible to respiratory diseases, now there are people affected by shortness of breath, that's why we anticipate by distributing masks to motorists and the public so that this dirty air is directly inhaled by the community and the community is not attacked by respiratory tract infections Acute nasopharyngitis.