Defence calls for joint investigations

The PNGDF Command is calling for a joint investigation by police and the army into the recent fatal police killing of 25 year old Nelson Rema and the apparent wounding of a soldier who was involved in the incident.

PNGDF Chief of Staff, Colonel Mark Goina says that this will be to ensure that proper transparent investigations are made into the case and to also address the issue of this being a repeat occurrence of soldiers and police taking to the streets to vent their frustrations over issues of conflict.

Goina says that the PNGDF will ensure that all soldiers implicated in the Manu Auto Port rampage and damaging of police vehicles will  be handed over to police to face the normal process of discipline.

He says that on that note that likewise their police counterparts must make sure that the police personnel involved should also be dealt with by the law.

Based on this Goina says that the office of the PNGDF Commander has sent a letter to the Police Commissioner’s office to seek a joint press conference that was to have taken place this week but never took place due to conflicting schedules.

He says that this joint press conference will be to set the record straight in how both forces will work together on ironing out the issues in terms of inter-force discipline between both their rank and file members.

 

Author: 
Julianna Waeda