PNG needs intelligent police officers says WNB Governor Muthuvel

Papua New Guinea needs police officers who are very intelligent with good educational background knowledge to deliver police services, says West New Britain Governor Sasindran Muthuvel.

The Governor said PNG need officers who are educated and intelligent and have some understanding of the justice system. Governor Muthuvel made this remark when officially opening the Police Commissioner’s Police conference in Kimbe, WNBP on Monday.

“To become a police officer, you need to be properly educated and trained. They must be of sound mind, intelligent, mental alertness, having the physical strength and able to make split seconds decisions,” Governor Muthuvel said.

Senior police officers throughout the country are in Kimbe for the annual Police Commissioner’s conference, themed “Addressing Institutional Impediments to Effective Control and Command.”

Governor Muthuvel said police now work under unexpected situations and trying times and must stand up to times to deliver police services. He also said they are living under a society where law and order issues are always prevalent and must be mindful of that. No country can survive where lawlessness becomes the law, the guilty of unpunished, the dishonest are rewarded, citizens are indifferent and custodians of the law become the biggest law breakers.

Commissioner of Police Gari Baki thanked the Governor for officially opening the week-long conference and said over the next few days, they will take stock of all their activities and collectively discuss their plans and strategies for Next Year’s upcoming National General Elections and the much anticipated APEC Meeting in 2018.

The Commissioner said those two occasions have already seen them having consultative discussions with other relevant state agencies but the Constabulary must also undergo some changes and rehabilitation to prepare itself for those up-coming challenges.

He said with their theme of the conference, the organization has come under much public scrutiny for the wrong reasons because members of the Constabulary are not being subservient to the values of discipline and ethical conduct.

“In a bid to encourage you all to revisit the Constabulary Standing Orders, the Internal Affairs Directorate will present a symposium on discipline and ethics in the first two days of our conference. I want all to grasp the information disseminated in this symposium and practically enforce these values in our respective areas of command,” he said.

The Commissioner also announced that he will extend this year’s Year of Discipline to 2017 as well to see and implement the outcome of the discipline symposium.

The Conference will end this Friday.