Law and Order is an issue with regards to criminal activities like hold ups in Hela Province.
With poor security coordination, criminals have taken over the roads especially during the transportation of remandees to the courts back and forth from Tari, considering the long distance they have to travel.
Hela governor, Philip Undialu in a conference with the Correctional Services on the reopening of the Hawa CS facility in Hela, says warned opportunists to refrain from such activities.
“Now it is a signal going to the people of Hela, especially the culprits and law breakers. We will come hard on any perpetrators.”
He said that law and order is a very serious problem in Hela hence the provincial government is taking it as a priority.
The provincial government is looking at restructures in the police and the court systems.
Plans are in place to secure almost 200 to 300 police reserves with the provincial government planning on signing an MoU with the police department as well.
This the governor says will support the work of law enforcement in the province.
“Hela plays host to the biggest LNG project and if there is anywhere in the country the government must play serious attention to, it must be Hela.”
Undialu said that the province has been taken for granted and he challenged that government for a K2 million allocation to Hela, under law and order grants.
“Hela provincial government is sowing its way to the national government to its responsibility in ensuring that we have a complete law and justice sector in Hela province,” Undialu adds.