Baki offers to train SI police cadet, forensic officers in PNG

By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK
POLICE Commissioner Gari Baki has offered assistance to train Solomon Island police cadet officers and forensic officers in Papua New Guinea.
Mr Baki said the cadets would be trained at the Bomana Police Training College outside Port Moresby while forensic officers would be attached with their PNG colleagues at the forensic laboratory, also in Port Moresby.
Mr Baki revealed this during the decommissioning of six community police officers who were involved in the regional assistance mission to the Solomon Islands (Ramsi) operation at the Hideaway Hotel in Port Moresby last Saturday.
These officers are the fourth batch from PNG to be sent to the Australian-led Ramsi duties. Currently, five officers from the fifth batch are now into their first of their nine months stint in the Solomon Islands.
Ramsi coordinators in Honiara have asked the PNG Police Force to send another five to assist the ones on the ground.
Mr Baki said in the past, cadets from the Solomon Islands had come over to PNG to train alongside their PNG counterparts.
Mr Baki said PNG was a big Melanesian country, “where we have huge experiences in maintaining law and order among the five million people of more than 1,000 different cultural groupings”.
Mr Baki said he might assign officers from other units, like traffic, mobile, prosecutions to take part in Ramsi.
“We are now looking at preparing our officers here in Port Moresby before sending them to the Solomon Islands for Ramsi duties.
“Currently, they go to Canberra for a two-month training stint before going to the Solomons for seven months,” he said.

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