Tag: Police

By Sally Pokiton in Wewak, Papua New Guinea A former Papua New Guinean police station commander, Chief Inspector Sakawar Kasieng, has been sentenced to seven...

Pacific Media Watch News Desk Police in Indonesia are facing allegations of torture from West Papuan independence leaders after a prominent human rights commissioner was...

EMTV News bulletin on the Highlands joint security forces parade in Mt Hagen. Pacific Media Centre News Desk Papua New Guinea's police have opened the first...

Glenda Popot of TVWan News reports on the PNG elections campaign trail. Video: TVWan News By Annette Kora in Mount Hagen Papua New Guinea's Highlands region...

Pacific Media Centre News Desk A group of United States security contractors engaged by Papua New Guinea's police chief to give firearms training have been...

By Sally Pokiton inn Port Moresby The 2017 New Guinea Islands national security operation for the general elections will be launched on Manus Island today. Police...

ANALYSIS: By Johannes Nugroho (Part 2) Following the awkward debacle of suspended military cooperation with Australia, in another maverick moment, General Gatot Nurmantyo told the...

By Catherine Graue of Pacific Beat As hundreds of police and soldiers begin their work in Papua New Guinea's Hela Province this week, there have...

By Yudhistira Amran Saleh in Jakarta Hundreds of Papuan demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) demanding independence for West Papua have been arrested and...

By Lowen Sei The Solomon Islands police force is facing one of its biggest tests of legitimacy since the withdrawal of the Australian-led Regional Assistance...

Opposition Leader Don Polye speaking in an EMTV Newscast last night. Video: EMTV Papua New Guinea's Opposition Leader Don Polye today called a press conference...

Australian-supported Indonesian police special forces have shot dead a teenage Papuan high school student in central Nabire city, West Papua, reports West Papua Media. The...

Papua New Guinea's government has appointed retired judge Justice Warwick Andrew as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry established to investigate recent violence at...

When EMTV News arrived at the UPNG main campus yesterday, students were armed with bush knives, stones, sticks and metal bars as they chased...

Senior police officers have been given a week's refresher training in the use of firearms following an uproar over the force opening fire on...

By Benny Mawel in Jayapura The West Papua National Committee claimed that more than 1000 of its members have were detained by Indonesian police during...

Papua New Guinea authorities deny a student has died from the police crushing of a protest at the University of PNG last Wednesday, but...

By Rocky Issou and NauFM News The Unitech administration in Papua New Guinea's second city of Lae has condemned last week's shooting by police of...

The EMTV News report yesterday about the Mt Hagen high school arrests following social media images of the police opening fire on students at...

Shouts of "shut up" and "don't directly insult me" resounded in Papua New Guinea's national Parliament when Rabaul MP Dr Allan Marat asked who...

The founding father and Governor of East Sepik Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare has condemned the actions of police this morning at the University...

By Annette Kora in Port Moresby A TV Wan female journalist and two National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) reporters in Papua New Guinea have been assaulted...