By SHEILA LASIBORI
TWO policemen have been charged and locked up after they allegedly help themselves to the money they were supposed to recover from thieves.
The money belonged to Tabubil Supermarket in Western province.
Tabubil-based Senior Constable Clement Pius, 45, of Ulupu village in Maprik East Sepik province and Constable Freddy Oke, 35, of Kondawa village in Ialibu Southern Highlands province, yesterday appeared in court to face theft charges involving K33,000.
North Fly provincial police commander Senior Inspector Tobby Hamago said his officers were charged last Tuesday after Port Moresby-based police officers carried out an investigation.
The officers were charged under Section 372 (1) of the Criminal Code Act for the alleged theft of K33,670 which they allegedly took from two armed robbers last February after a robbery at Tabubil Supermarket.
The two officers, now in police custody, were implicated after the robbers, while pleading guilty to their crime, revealed that the amount of money they fled with was K38,670 and not K5,000 which the two officers had claimed.
The two officers were assigned to go after the supermarket robbers.


 

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