ACP: No compo allowed for crime settlement
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ACP: No compo allowed for crime settlement
PORT MORESBY: Is it justice when a serious crime like murder is
settled with compensation? The answer is obviously “No”!
Border command ACP Peter Philip said police must no
longer tolerate or accept compensation payments by offenders to resolve their
crimes in East Sepik.
“My stance is clear in a directive to commander Supt
Albert Beli and a similar directive would be issued to all police station
commanders in the province,” he added.
Read on for more details as reported by The National:
ACP directs
cops to stop compos
January 5, 2022The
NationalNational
POLICE must no longer tolerate or accept
compensation payments by offenders to resolve their crimes in East Sepik, a
senior police officer says.
Asst Comm of Police (ACP) border command Peter Philip said he had made his
stance clear in a directive to police commander Supt Albert Beli and a similar
directive would be issued to all the police station commanders in the province.
“No more police negotiations or bel kol for all the serious
crimes,” he said.
ACP Philip told The National that he wanted all those who had
been arrested and charged for their involvement in any serious crimes such as
rape, murder or assault to answer for their crimes in court.
“Police negotiations also referred to as customary negotiations or bel
kol was commonly conducted in communities,” he said.
“However, it has come to my attention that the perpetrator always resumes to
repeat his crimes,” he said.
ACP Philip said he wanted all perpetrators to go to court so that the law could
decide on the appropriate penalties and to also act as a deterrent.
He said there were times that people did not have the funds to settle matters
outside of court and that had resulted in many un-resolved cases.
ACP Philip said the last thing he wanted was to have un-resolved cases in
communities as this affected peace in the communities.
He said he wanted police commanders to comply with this directive in order to
minimise law and order problems in specific districts in the province.
In addition to that, ACP Philip said all police commanders needed to remain in
their districts and provide reports to their superiors about law and order
issues affecting their districts.
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