Tag: PNG Police
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...
PNG police manhunt for Rai gang cult stalls without chopper
By Sylvester Wemuru in Port Moresby
The manhunt for the Papua New Guinean cult group along the Rai coast near Madang has been halted because...
Wanted by police – a chopper airlift to hunt a PNG...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
A 21-man Papua New Guinean police team deployed to Nankina Valley in Madang’s Rai coast district has requested a...
Undercover narcotics team seizes drugs, illegal guns in PNG hotel
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
An inter-agency team working with Australian and American investigators has busted a drug laboratory operating in a Papua New...
More than 50,000 illegal firearms in PNG, but general denies...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Many allegations have been levelled against Papua New Guinea's disciplinary forces over the years, alleging that police and soldiers...
PNG woman accused of selling her cousin, 12, for sex faces...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinean woman who allegedly sold her cousin sister -- confirmed to be aged only 12 --...
PNG police rescue girl, 15, ‘sold’ for sex by her cousin...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A 15-year-old Papua New Guinean girl, found in a Port Moresby guesthouse during a spot check by immigration and...
Marape tells PNG police they should be ‘doing their job’ over...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Prime Minister James Marape says Papua New Guineans who continue to commit crimes under the pretext of "sorcery" must...
PNG court rules police chief Manning can stay pending appeal
By Karo Jesse in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has stayed a court order nullifying the appointment of David Manning as Commissioner of...
Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree?...
COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer, PNG's Minister of Police who has defended Commissioner Manning's appointment today in The National
My last article, announcing that I intend...
Dash cameras to brush up PNG police ‘transparency’, says minister Kramer
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Dash cameras have been installed in Papua New Guinea police vehicles to monitor the activities of drivers and officers...
Four Papua New Guineans arrested in cocaine for Australia plot
Police Commissioner David Manning's media conference yesterday about the K200 million drug heist. Video: Loop PNG
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papuan New Guinea's massive drug haul...
Bryan Kramer: Background to the massive PNG drug heist and probe
By Bryan Kramer, Papua New Guinea's Minister of Police
Assistant Commissioner Lesa Gale of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) staged a press conference to announce...
Former PM O’Neill blames current government for ‘politicised’ arrest
By EMTV News
Former Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the National Executive Council of the then Papua New Guinea government approved the purchase of two...
PNG military hand over three suspects in police officer killing
By EMTV Online
The PNG Defence Force has handed over three suspects for the killing of police Senior Inspector Andrew Tovere to the investigating police.
Assistant...