The PNGDF will be setting up three main command centres for the 2017 General Elections.
The centres will be located in Lae, Mount Hagen and Port Moresby.
Lae will coordinate the troops that will look after operations in the Momase and New Guinea Islands regions, Hagen will be to cater for the Highlands region while Port Moresby the Southern region troops.
Defense Force Chief of Joint Operations, Colonel Ezekiel Wenzel, tells Loop PNG that the deployed troops will be carrying out secondary duty to the police, who will be leading the operations.
He says the primary duty of the troops will be to provide support in terms of rapid response in and around the polling areas and intelligence work on the ground.
All operations will be under the command of the Police divisional and provincial commanders on ground.
The main contingent of troops should be deployed come early May.
(Loop file pic)