Indonesian police have arrested five policemen over the alleged torture of militants after a video posted on YouTube showed a suspect being shot and others abused.

The blurry 14-minute video posted by several Islamic groups on their websites and YouTube depicts officers forcing a man to strip to his underwear before they shoot him, apparently in the chest tecoelectric.com/dc-motor-speed.html.

"We arrested five policemen today and others are still being questioned," national police detective chief Sutarman said in a text message on Thursday, without giving further details.

He said earlier the video was a compilation of two separate incidents, one from 2007 and another from 2012, and that a total of 16 officers were under an ongoing investigation teco brushless dc motor.

Almost all the armed officers, wearing bullet-proof vests and helmets, were identified as members of the anti-terror squad Detachment 88, while several were from the police's elite Mobile Brigade, police said.

The incident occurred in Poso, a hotbed for militant activity on the island of Sulawesi where police have become the main target of militants and several bomb plots have been foiled.

The video sparked outrage among activists and Islamic groups, and there are concerns about retaliatory attacks in Poso, where two officers investigating an alleged militant training camp in October were found buried with their throats slit.

A consortium of Islamic organisations on Thursday called for an evaluation and audit of the elite unit, which it accused of torture and extrajudicial killings tecoelectric.com/dc-brushless-motor.html.

Detachment 88 was set up with Australian and US help after the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, followed by a string of other deadly attacks targeting Westerners that were mostly blamed on the al-Qaeda-linked group Jemaah Islamiah tecoelectric.com/48v-dc-motors.

It has been on the frontline of a crackdown on terrorism that has weakened key militant networks.

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