Family to petition government on police brutality

Families of the late Nelson Rema, who died from a gunshot wound while being pursued by police in Port Moresby will petition the government to take immediate action on police brutality.

Businessman and family member Michael Yai-Pupu says police brutality has reached unprecedented levels to the point where they are now considered the single biggest internal threat to national security.

“Police brutality and inhuman ways of treating people is unbecoming of a disciplinary force.”

“People cannot be killed at the hands of police and so far so many lives have been lost,” he said in a press conference.

Pupu says police brutality is also a threat to both local businesses and foreign investors.

Nelson Rema, 25 was driving a vehicle carrying his aunt and his brother on November 26 when a “high speed car chase” ensued ending in his death.

Both his aunt and brother claim that they were unlawfully wounded by policemen. His aunt also told reporters, she was forced to drink a policeman’s urine, a claim Commissioners Gary Baki has since denied through a statement.

A post mortem has been completed also.

The family has also placed an official police report and LOOP PNG understands police have done a preliminary investigation and are currently preparing a crime report

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Joy Kisselpar