Baki clarifies issues of appointment, luxury car

POLICE Commissioner Gari Baki, pictured, has brushed aside reports of appointing questionable naturalised Papua New Guineans to head police units.
Baki also gave little or no serious thoughts to suggestions that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) authority had bought a new K800,000 vehicle for him.
Baki yesterday waved off all the claims that had gone viral on the social media.
“I have promoted and appointed Superintendent Ming Aixinjueluo to be the Deputy National Crime director when I was appointed in June in 2015 for the second time as the commissioner,” Baki said.
“But in 2007 when I was first appointed as the commissioner, I had initially appointed him as the officer in-charge of organised crimes and given him the chief inspector’s rank. Prior to that, he was a police reservist. He is not an expatriate.
He was born in Kundiawa, Chimbu, in 1976.
His parents and grandparents are long-time PNG residents.”
Baki said Ming was seconded to the PNG Embassy in Beijing, China, in 2010 but his documents were too slow to be processed.
“So I recalled him back from China in 2015 and appointed him in his current capacity.
“So he is not a rogue officer that I had picked from the streets.”
Baki also defended the appointment of West New Britain-based Australian businessman Dennis Cororan to head the police transport division.
“I have replaced my Transport director with Cororan and have promoted him to the superintendent’s rank.
“He is an experienced administrator and will run transport the way I want. “He was born and raised in Papua New Guinea.
“He is a son of a former police officer in the colonial days.
“His father also started the PNG Fire Brigade.
“And Dennis decided to stay back in PNG and is now a businessman in Kimbe.
“But I’m not connected with his business to appoint him.”
Baki also clarified reports on social media that Apec had bought him a top-of-the-range Toyota Land Cruiser VX.
“I had removed that car from a man employed at Apec authority who was using the car and pretending to work as a security officer,”Baki said.
“I had to remove the vehicle from the security fleet and brought it here to the police headquarters.
“I will give it to the police minister.
“I have my own car, a Land Cruiser, and am using it for Apec duties and for my own use.
“The police force has no money to buy and maintain a VX. And as long as I’m the commissioner, I will not drive a VX.”