Boroko Police Station

Francis Maim, a 42-year-old Maprik man, spotted the folder on a bus 17 last week Friday.

Maim told Loop PNG that he wanted to bring the folder forward because he noted that the student would be in need of such vital documents.

The Good Samaritan says he decided today to bring it to police to make sure the student gets the lost property.

The folder contains certificates and reference documents bearing the name ‘Keivavine Walo’.

The folder has since been submitted to this newsroom to help bring the message across to the public.

Joe Mondo went before Magistrate Maristella Painap on Thursday for his penalty sentence after he earlier pleaded guilty to the offense.

He was arrested and charged with being in possession of a pistol without a license, a charge under Section 27 (a) of the Firearms Act.

Mondo was has a rank of Lieutenant in the army was told by Magistrate Painap that his actions on New Year’s eve which led to the stand-off between Police and Soldiers at the Boroko Police station did not reflect on his rank.

The newly assigned room will be used to take fingerprints and photographs of suspects brought for police file purposes.

NCD MetSup Ben Turi says Boroko Police Station for many years had a poor data base where case files have disappeared over a period of time.

“When suspects escape from police custody, officers don’t have case files or pictures to be able to identify them but this will make it easy for them.”

A female journalist from EMTV and her cameraman were threatened and almost assaulted by police officer Joshua Yawijah.

Yawijah is the same cop implicated in the condom swallowing incident at the Boroko Police station on Dec 4, 2015.

The cop, who did not want the cameraman getting cutaways of him walking outside the courthouse, approached him and attempted to pull the camera off its stand. Yawijah then tried to throw a punch at the cameraman and also the journalist.

A ruling on whether the court has sufficient evidence against Probationary police officers, 22-year-old Joshua Yawijah of Maia village, Pangia, Southern Highlands Province, and 23-year-old Jacklyn Tanda of Sakarip village, Wabag, Enga Province was done this morning.

The two officers are allegedly involved in forcing a woman to swallow two condoms at the Boroko Police Station on Dec 4,2015. The woman was forced to swallow two condoms after she was forced to empty the belongings in her bag onto a table. Seven male condoms were found on her.

Bidar made these statements this morning when he adjourned the case of Probationary police officers, 22-year-old Joshua Yawijah of Maia village, Pangia, Southern Highlands Province, and 23-year-old Jacklyn Tanda of Sakarip village, Wabag, Enga Province for two weeks.

“This case started in January this year and we are now going into the seventh month. We must finalise this case,” he told the lawyer representing the two police officers and the police prosecution team.

The woman who is alleged to be from Gulf Province was held up for questioning  in the newly refurbished minor crimes interrogation room at the Boroko Police Station last night and was later forced by a police officer on duty to swallow condoms while being filmed.

NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Ben Turi says that the woman has gone into hiding and is now calling for her to come forward with necessary information required for the police to find out who the perpetrator is so  they can be dealt  with.