One attempt in health area which is regulated in Regulation No. 23, 1992 concerning
Health is about the effort to secure foods and medicines, in terms of medicine has to comply with
health standards or health regulations. Packed medicines have to be given information about
ingredients, each material composition and expire date, month and year. The meaning of expired
here is that medicine which has exceeded it’s expire date, month and year is not healthy to be
consumed and hazardous for one’s health.
This law writing is aimed to investigate the role of police department in handling expired
medicine circulation and overcoming constraints for police department in handling expired
medicine circulation.
Research location is in Yogyakarta and the research subject is Yogyakarta Police
Department. Data collection was done by interviews and literature study. Research data was
analyzed by descriptive method, that is, data collected from the primary and secondary data
which is systematically and logically written according to the deductive pattern, and then
explained, written, and integrated based on scientific normative system.
Research result gives conclusion and discussion which explained that the role of police
department in handling expired medicines circulation by guiding medicine manufacturers and
sellers, monitoring medicine manufacturers and sellers, and implementing control operation in
some places. Constraints overcame by police department are the unclear information from
citizens and from other data source about expired medicine circulation; the initial findings which
has to be followed- up into the outer side of work area; medicine sellers who frequently receive
blank statement of account without identity.