Tag: PNG Police
PNG investigation identifies 8 police suspects in Mt Hagen election violence
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
Eight policemen attached to Mt Hagen police division have been identified as suspects in an election-related shooting that resulted...
‘Frightening to see such violence’ in tribal war on PNG’s Kiriwina...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
At least 32 people have been killed in an all-out war between Kulumata and Kuboma tribes in Milne Bay’s...
PNG official confirms more than 30 dead in tribal clash in...
By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists
More than 30 people have been confirmed dead by Papua New Guinea government official Nelson Tauyuwada...
PNG police put national exams under guard over cheating fears
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
For the first time in the life of school exams in Papua New Guinea, police will monitor the national...
PNG police arrest 18 suspects following election attacks in Port Moresby
Inside PNG News
National Capital Dictrict (NCD) police have arrested 18 suspects following the slasher attacks on civilians yesterday outside Papua New Guinea's national elections...
18 people hacked to death in Porgera in under an hour...
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier
A brutal massacre in Porgera town yesterday afternoon in which 18 innocent people were killed has rocked Enga...
PNG police taskforce to hunt down 15 candidate suspects over Enga...
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning has fired the first warning shot in the hunt for candidates...
Papua New Guinea voters head to the polls to choose from...
RNZ Pacific
Voting in the Papua New Guinea general election begins today.
Voters will elect 118 members of Parliament, including governors of the 22 provinces, from...
PNG security detain man with K1.56m in suitcase as elections begin
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A man was held by Papua New Guinean security personnel in Hela Province on Saturday after he was found...
PNG police stop seven trucks and seize ‘sensitive’ election materials
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean security forces have intercepted and stopped seven trucks carrying seven containers containing sensitive election material in...
Australia gifts PNG with vests and helmets ahead of elections
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Australia has gifted Papua New Guinea with 3000 ballistic vests and 3000 helmets which arrived at Jackson’s International Airport...
PNG police probe election candidates’ alleged use of guns in Highlands
By Miriam Zarriga in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinean police are investigating serious firearms offences allegedly involving five candidates contesting the election...
Police warn PNG public about robbers after attack on Unitech students
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea police have warned the public to take precaution with criminals now operating in large numbers in some suburbs of the...
Driver in deputy PM’s fatal accident in hospital, PNG police call...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
On the eve of Papua New Guinea heading into its 2022 national general elections, the bearer of one of...
PNG police order crackdown on illegal firearms as deadline looms
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's policemen and women around the country have been ordered to arrest and charge anyone in possession...
Tension still high in PNG’s Mt Hagen after school fight leads...
By Rita Peki in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
A few shops and buildings in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands provincial capital Mt Hagen have...
Lae police chief calls on state agencies, NGOs to tackle illegal...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Lae police chief has called on government agencies and non-government organisations to address illegal settlements in and around Papua New...
PNG police arms, ammunition not yet ready for this year’s elections
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean police have made a startling revelation that firearms for the National Elections security operations in June...
PNG opposition leader calls on lawyer MP to resign over shooting...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea opposition leader Belden Namah has called on a member of Parliament, Lohia Boe Samuel, to resign over the accidental fatal...
Post-Courier: Violence in any form is a serious disease – target...
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's police commissioner, David Manning, addressing the International Women’s Day celebrations this week, let it be known that...
PNG police arrest suspect in torture and killing of women in...
The National
A Papua New Guinean primary school teacher has been arrested for allegedly torturing a woman with a hot knife in sorcery-related violence in...
Lawyers threaten PNG police with contempt over settlers eviction halt
PNG Post-Courier
A Supreme Court ordered mass eviction of settlers on land between Papua New Guinea's University of PNG, Gerehu Stage 3B and Morata stage...