NCD Police

Police have been tasked to keep an eye on the students’ engagements as well as monitor for opportunists who would want to take advantage of tensions that may arise on the ground.

NCD metropolitan police Commander Ben Turi tells Loop PNG that while presently the situation is calm and quiet, his commanders have all been notified and will be taking the UPNG area into consideration in their operational runs.

NCD Central police commander Sylvester Kalaut tells Loop PNG that the work is at a costing of K500,000

To date the work is running within budget.

He adds that there are also plans in place for the set up of a courtroom to hear minor cases in the station.

Kalaut says he is encouraged by the progress made as it is falling within the set deadline of the renovation, with remandees to be moved in by mid-May once all work is completed.

Nearby residents alerted the police, resulting in the three men ending up at the Six-Mile Police Station.

It was alleged that the 45-year-old man was swearing and then resorted to bashing up his two Tari neighbours after they kept him awake with their music following a night of drinking.

The two Tari men, aged 34 and 42, were reportedly drunk since Thursday and were causing a nuisance at the Six-Mile settlement where they live.

The suspect, a shift worker at a security firm, had just got off a two-day shift and was in a bad mood at the time of the attack.

The NCD Central police commander Sylvester Kalaut says that they anticipate at least a month before the cells can be prepared for the NCDC Health inspectors to carry out a site inspection to see if the cells can be used again.

The holding cells were condemned after initial health scares and deteriorating plumbing and drainage systems forced the NCD police command to carry out a unique media and health inspection of the facilities early last month.

Thomas Kei is now lying paralysed in a hospital bed at the Port Moresby General Hospital waiting on an operation to remove bullets from his shot up legs.

Molex Mathew a relative looking after him says the man is in a lot of pain as he awaits surgery.

The March 23 incident in now being investigated by the Criminal Investigation Division officers at the police headquarters.

Assistant Police commissioner Crimes Victor Isouve has confirmed that the policeman were under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident.

Anjo tells PNG Loop that he filed the notice of motion papers yesterday (March 21) with a court date set for April  29.

A statement of charge directed at NCD Metropolitan Police Commander Ben Turi has also been given to him.

The statement of charge read that Turi would be charged with contempt of court charges in line with the October 1, 2014 court order stopping police from interfering with protests carried out by Anjo.

Anjo further alleges that the peaceful gathering turned  confrontational with police was in line with the October court order.

The 40 year old killed the Central woman and later surrendered himself to police on Thursday (18^th February).

Gordons police commander Joseph Sale told PNG Loop the man slashed the woman twice on her head with a long bush knife that killed her instantly.

Sale says the man was upset with the woman for leaving him for another Western highlands man.                                                         

The three aged between 15 and 17 were under the heavy influence of homebrew and marijuana at the time of their arrests.

The youths were picked up by a patrol car that was doing routine checks in the area.

Meantime in another incident near the area another man was also picked up for drinking in a public place.

The three youths are now at the  juvenile cells at Boroko and will be questioned and charged.

Meanwhile, the man 38 from Chimbu has been detained at the Badili police station.

Numerous letters have been written to Port Moresby based police to come forward with firearms and statements to no avail.

That’s from Acting Crimes Director, Moses Ibsagi, who now has to deal with frustrated relatives from Hanuabada who have threatened to protest what appears to be a lack of willingness on the part of police to arrest the shooters.

His investigation team had requested officers to provide details on the type of weapons they have been carrying whilst on duty.

The man from Madang was attacked by the Rabaul man along with three of his male relatives who were allegedly under the influence of alcohol.

The matter was reported at the Boroko police station by the victim, 34, after the four men jumped him outside the club and smashed the windscreen of his vehicle.

Police say the four were in another vehicle at the time of the incident and spotted the man outside the club.