“Rogue Cop” behaviour riles Opposition

The Opposition has joined a chorus of condemnation on a police officer, who allegedly forced a woman to “chew and eat swallow condoms” at the Boroko police cell this week.

Leader Don Pomb Polye said: “Our women, girls, children and the disadvantaged should be treated with respect and dignity.”

Polye said ‘this rogue behaviour’ angered him, describing it as ‘inhuman and animalistic.’

Deputy parliamentary leader of Triumph Heritage Empowerment party and Lae MP Loujaya Kouza described the cop, who forced the woman into the act as ‘sadistic’.

“Sadistic is the word which best describes the ‘rogue cop’, who made my sister to chew condoms. There is no degradation as low as that going to break her spirit.

“The sisterhood is praying for wisdom so other sisters can break this tyranny of humiliation alive and well in some PNG men, who are jealous of their fellow women,” she said.

Kouza is responsible for the rights of women, girls, children and the disadvantaged in the party.

 

Polye has commended the top brass of the police hierarchy, calling for the suspect’s identification through a formal complaint by the woman. 

Polye has called on his men not to live in the past but begin to respect the rights of ‘weak human beings’ in the society.

“It is about time we need to weed out  the few rogue police personnel who continue to throw mud at the Royal Constabulary,” Polye said.

Meanwhile, on learning about a police officer, who murdered a woman in Lae, Morobe, and was  sentenced on Thursday by the National Court to serve 30 years imprisonment with hard labour, the Opposition Leader said the punishment was enough to send shockwaves across the police force to show that they were not above the law.

In another police brutality related case in the  Hanuabada shooting, Polye has also applauded the police officers for identifying a few suspects in their findings.

He commended Police Commission Gary Baki for his leadership in a job well-done.

He said the public was looking forward to similar outcomes in other police brutality cases, which have been shelved for unknown reasons.

Polye has slammed the Prime Minister and his police minister for giving ‘cold shoulder  on the issue of police brutality’ in the country.

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