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The irresponsible actions by a few policemen who are mostly reservists must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Firstly, wholehearted respect is rightly due to a few responsible, hard working and honest policemen and women who are diligently discharging their mandated roles of maintaining and up keeping law and order in the country. You must hold your head high if you fit this category. Then comes these relatively uneducated and mostly unemployed reservists who lack total discipline and grossly abuse the blue uniform that was once the pride of the Royal PNG Constabulary. The top command responsible for recruiting such personnel must be answerable to such rogue behaviour by a few who lack total rational and foresight in appreciating the fast decaying image of the Police Force. Currently, there is worrying trends of car jagging, bag snatching, drunk and disorderly in public places, consumption of marijuana and homebrew in places like Waigani and Gordons markets to name a few. The safety of the public is no longer guaranteed, especially ladies young and old who are weak and vulnerable. Those crimes don’t mean a thing to foot patrolling reservists under one or two Regulars’ supervision who are all briefed out to go wide eyed only to detect bettlenut vendors, cold water and lolly vendors who are trying to make an honest living. From quick survey, most sellers of such products are unemployed youths who find meaning in these engagements by way of earning some cash to feed themselves. If they are continuously harassed and chased by such behaviour of the law enforcers, you are only sending these youths back to break and enter, stealing, bag snatching, and other opportunity crimes of just following these law enforcers around to take advantage of the situation when dispersing such informal sales. Police presence in strategic locations like bus stops is compulsory to minimise a lot of opportunity crimes. The informal sector traders like cold water vendors, bettlenut and lolly vendors would be too happy to supply these policemen for their presence in granting them safety. Their lame and out of date excuse of these informal sales creating opportunity crimes like bag snatching, creating rubbish, etc is mere nonsense and unfounded rubbish which has no proven research basis to substantiated such tunnel visioned views. Peter Nukunts Pt Moresby compels me to put pen to paper in response to “the waiting for promises” Ghost Wara Mai Bridge |
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