Police Association condemns Sir Mekere’s criticism

The Police Association of Papua New Guinea has strongly condemned Sir Mekere Morauta’s criticism of the current government not paying police personnel’s salaries on time.

National President, Lowa Tambua said this relating to an article published by The National on 15/02/2017.

Tambua said the members prefer to maintain impartiality in their conduct, therefore would not want to promote political propaganda in any circumstance.

“The current government is adequately addressing all welfare and employment issues within the police force.”

This include the massive police modernisation program funding in collaboration with the Australian Government worth millions of Kina, provision and funding for Life and Medical insurance cover worth K5 million, consecutive and sustained pay rise for the police officers, funding of the public servants home ownership scheme which all officers are eligible to participate, elevation and upgrade of Bomana Police College to the Centre of Excellence, re-establishment of the Joint Forces Academy in Lae and many others.

“Critics like Sir Mekere have to step out of their comfort zones, travel PNG and see for themselves.”

“We do not intend to politicize this but Sir Mekere’s current media outburst provokes the police personnel’s nightmares,” says Tambua.

He adds that all eligible voters in PNG have reached a certain level of intellectual consciousness, thus they will clearly judge all the candidates, political parties and their leaders in the coming elections based on their performances, achievements in the past four years and standing in society.

“Do not use the workers in all sectors of the public service to gain political milestone.”

“Our members have expressed their desire for radical, guided and sustained infrastructure development to drive the economy that will change the mindset of all the citizens, embrace change in all aspects of their lives with such positive perspectives,” Tambua says.