Tag: Police
Civil rights groups raise concerns about Jokowi’s next police chief
By Devina Halim in Jakarta
The Security sector Reform Coalition says there are three problems which need to be addressed when the sole candidate for...
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...
Police commissioners in Tonga and the dropped reforms
COMMENTARY: By Philip Cass of Kaniva Tonga
Where does the responsibility of Tonga's Police Commissioner lie?
Is it to the Police Minister and Cabinet? To the...
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...
Sacked PNG police chief claims he will challenge his removal
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's new Police Minister Bryan Kramer, once the Opposition MP scourge of the former Peter O'Neill-led government, is continuing...
Media raids raise questions of police power over journalists, whistleblowers
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne
In their raids on media organisations, journalists and whistleblowers, the Australian Federal Police have shown themselves...
ABC raid ‘chilling’ for freedom of press, says editorial chief
How Al Jazeera reported yesterday's raid by Australian police on the offices of the national public broadcaster ABC. The raid was over a series...
Why the raids on Australian media present a clear threat to...
By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh of The University of Queensland
The Australian Federal Police has this week conducted two high-profile raids on journalists who have exposed...
RSF warns Australia over ‘grave threat’ to investigative journalism
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
After the latest Australian federal police raid targeting the media - this time the Sydney headquarters of the national public broadcaster...
MEAA blasts ‘disturbing assaults’ on press freedom after new ABC raid
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Two raids by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on journalists and media organisations within the last 24 hours represent a disturbing...
Solomon Islands police remain on high alert in the wake of...
By Koroi Hawkins in Honiara
Police in Solomon Islands remain on high alert after Wednesday's riots which broke out across the capital Honiara shortly after...
‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of...
By Rosalie Nongebatu, editor of Wansolwara
A Solomon Islands academic says the only body that can find a legitimate solution to his country’s current crisis...
30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital
Police say some people decided to take the law into their own hands and marched through some streets of the capital, fighting, causing public...
Solomons police call for calm to counter riots after PM elected
By RNZ Pacific
Police in Solomon Islands called for calm today after rioting broke out in the capital of Honiara over the election of Manasseh...
Gunman arrested ‘within 21 minutes’ and saved lives, says police chief
By RNZ
Police Commissioner Mike Bush says police knew where the suspect from the Christchurch mosque attacks was going after the New Zealand shootings and...
Police use snake to interrogate Papuan, apologise for ‘racist’ torture
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Indonesian police have apologised for wrapping a snake around an indigenous Papuan they suspected of theft, reports The Jakarta Post.
A video...
Scott Waide: PNGFM news boss calls for investigations, penalties for troops...
Scott Waide's blog highlights an open letter by Genesis Ketan, director of news, PNGFM:
As director of News for PNGFM, I am very disappointed at...
Couple remanded in big Vanuatu human trafficking, slavery case
By Richard M. Nanua and Royson Willie in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Magistrates Court has remanded a Bangladeshi couple over what is alleged to be the...
Hundreds of protesting PNG police move in on Parliament over pay
By RNZ Pacific
Hundreds of Papua New Guinea police have descended on Parliament Haus in the Port Moresby suburb of Waigani demanding payments they say...
Detained tourist in West Papua on allegations of ‘treason’ awaits trial
By Islami Adisubrata in Wamena, West Papua
Indonesian Regional Police in West Papua have handed over the documents of the case of a Polish tourist,...
Fiji’s Rabuka not troubled over new police summons as election looms
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji political party leader Sitiveni Rabuka says he is not worried about being called in by police for questioning today.
Rabuka, leader of...