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As the apparent death toll from an alleged serial killer who targeted young boys continued to rise on Tuesday, police said they would round up street children and conduct physical examinations for indications of sexual abuse.

“On Thursday, we’ll search for buskers at shelters and public places such as intersections, bus and train stations, bridges and anywhere else they usually gather,” said North Jakarta Police Comr. Adex Yudiswan on Tuesday. “We’ll take doctors with us.”

The police will work with the National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas Anak) and the city’s Social Affairs Agency to locate the estimated 4,000 street children in Jakarta.

Snr. Comr. Hassanudin, East Jakarta Police chief, said similar operations had been taken previously to identify criminals and remove them from the streets.

“We have done these [kind of operations] for a long time,” Hassanudin said, adding that in addition to a physical examination, the children would be screened for the HIV/AIDS virus.

The police plan was labeled an overreaction and “arrogant” by the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI), a nongovernmental organization that focuses on street children.

“If they really want to examine the street children, they should conduct thorough medical examinations,” KPAI chairwoman Masnah Sari said.

Masnah said that the government should also have a plan to get children off the streets.

“If they are on the street, no test can protect them from being abused,” she said.

Meanwhile, Haposan Hutagalung, the lawyer for the accused serial killer, Bayquni, also known as Babe, said his client allegedly admitted to killing an additional victim, which would take the tally to eight.

“The victim’s name is Teguh, aged 12 years old,” Haposan said, adding that the new admission came during Bayquni’s latest interrogation.

Teguh was murdered in Kuningan, West Java in 1998, the lawyer said. Police have recovered body parts from the scene, although the head and torso were never found.

Komnas Anak says the true number of victims could be as high as 15 children, as evidenced by the number of photographs Bayquni had collected .

“His photo collection is vast,” Komnas Anak Secretary General Arist Merdeka Sirait said.

“According to the street kids looked after by Babe, the ones in the pictures were his favorites . He could have more than 15 victims,” Arist said.

The commission also said that the panic over Bayquni’s atrocities has led to a sharp rise in reports of missing children.