Betel nut-chewing cops shock police commander N’dranou

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New Guinea Islands commander ACP Perou N’dranou

Betel nut-chewing cops shock police commander N’dranou

PORT MORESBY: New Guinea Islands commander Asst Comm Perou N’dranou visited police stations and was shocked to find policemen chewing betel nuts in front of their superiors.

“How do they face complainants or victims without spitting on their faces?” he said.

He spoke at the launch of the West New Britain (WNB) police security operations for General Election 2022 yesterday (June 1, 2022).

“I have asked all our men and womenb to step up security operations in WNB.

“If the frontline is not functioning well, there will be problems.

“We are making a mistake, putting time, effort and resources to support units while the basic foundation of policing is not giving the support needed,” he added.

The news break was reported by The National:

NGI cops shock commander

June 2, 2022The NationalMain Stories

NEW Guinea Islands commander Assistant Commissioner Perou N’dranou visited police stations and was shocked to find policemen chewing betel nuts in front of their superiors.
“How do they face complainants or victims without spitting in their faces?” he said.
He spoke at the launch of the West New Britain police security operations for the 2022 general election yesterday.
“I have asked all our men to step up their security operations in West New Britain.
“If the frontline is not functioning well, there will be problems.
“We are making a mistake, putting time, effort and resources to support units while the basic foundation of policing is not giving the support needed.”
N’dranou said two vehicles would go to frontline policing.
“To ensure public safety, let us get it right and the rest will run well,” he said. He lamented how he visited Kokopo police station recently and found no one on duty but they were happy to be paid.
“No police force in the world will survive without the public support, and that starts with our behaviour,” he said.
N’dranou said frontline policing covered cracking down on public nuisance and creating good stakeholder partnership.
When visiting police stations in New Ireland and East New Britain, N’dranou said he not only saw unsightly betel nut-chewing policemen, “there are no foot or crime-prevention patrols”.
“I introduced such patrols in Manus, New Ireland and East New Britain and it will start here.”
He said that he believed when police started picking up rowdy youth causing a public nuisance in the streets, “the public will appreciate policing and many will start behaving”.

Teacher targets roads for Hagen Open seat

A brass band performing at James Puk’s rally at an oval in Mt Hagen, Western Highlands yesterday. – Nationalpic by JILL MIRR

FORMER Primary School teacher James Puk hosted a rally in Western Highlands yesterday and spoke about improving road conditions in Mt Hagen among other policies.
Puk is one of those contesting against incumbent MP William Duma for the Hagen Open seat in this general election.
Puk from Bann village, contested in 2017 and came second.

Officer urges candidates to act responsibly

By MICHAEL PHILIP
GAZELLE open returning officer John Wartovo has urged the 33 candidates and their supporters to act responsibly during the campaign period.
According to Wartovo, the district recorded the highest number of candidates for this year’s election compared to previous elections.
Wartovo told The National that he had urged each candidate to act responsibly and ensure their supporters did as well to have a free, fair and safe electoral process.
“Gazelle has the highest number of candidates nominated apart from Kokopo, Rabaul and Pomio,” he said.
“We encourage every candidate with their supporters to behave when campaigning.
“After submitting their nominations, we tell them, they have to respect the law and follow the election process.
“Respect must prevail so that the election process in Gazelle will be orderly and peacefully.”
Wartovo added that the nomination period in Gazelle was generally peaceful and orderly.
He also urged the people of Gazelle to respect every candidate and their supporters campaign in their villages.
For voter education awareness, Wartovo added that they had engaged the United Church missionaries to carry out awareness on how to fill the ballot papers.
“We have this because from experience, in 2017 we encountered a lot of informal ballot papers,” he said.
“They (missionaries) have started already.
“They will go to all the five LLGs of Gazelle to assist in doing the awareness so that people know how to properly fill out the ballot papers.”

Eight out to unseat Masiu

EIGHT candidates are challenging incumbent Timothy Masiu for the South Bougainville seat in the 2022 general election.
Masiu won the seat in a by-election in 2016 and was again returned to the seat in 2017.
He urged the people of South Bougainville to choose leaders with sound and concrete development policies as the election would be the last for Bougainvilleans who wanted independence.
“We, therefore, need visionary and hardworking leaders in Parliament to advance Bougainville’s cause,” he said.
“Do not be misled by misinformation and character assassination by candidates who clearly do not have any workable development policies.”

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