NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Commander Ben Turi

What could have been a normal, peaceful Sunday, turned into a circus at the Korobosea Drive, around 6.30am, when a group of Highlanders fired at some men from Gulf Province.

Residents told Loop PNG that these groups of men had been drinking since midnight. They got into an argument which eventually led to a man, allegedly from Baimuru, being shot.

Loop was on site to witness the different groups hurling stones and obscenities at each other while their neighbours stood only a few metres away, watching in curiosity.

Turi highlighted that the police hierarchy has taken a different approach in dealing with these cases, proving it to be active, causing crime rates to have decreased over sometime.

“However, although the rate is low; crime is inevitable.”

Meanwhile, police are now fully on the go to curb down on this crimes throughout the city and tough measures will be taken to address serious and or petty criminal activities.

Turi says, whilst most of the time the police have been branded with negativity; at times it is brought on by the personnel’s (public) themselves.