Certain officers lack command

WITH much sadness, I read of the teen mother who was allegedly beaten and killed by her partner was also reportedly attacked by soldiers and police officers before returning to her husband.
I cannot understand what sort of threat a 19-year-old mother could be to highly-trained disciplinary force officers and the military barracks she was in.
That news has again opened up an ugly crack that is not properly addressed by the PNG Defence Force and Police commands.
Actually, it is an open sore.
There are rogue officers who are living within the precincts of a police or military barracks in Port Moresby and are not adhering to their codes.
There are many committed officers who sacrifice daily for our nation, but then there are those who live as if the disciplined forces are to be used to advance their own interests.
It baffles me how police officers in the capital city can enter a military barracks without following proper procedure and forcefully take a young mother from her guardians and whisk her away back to her abusive partner.
It shows that there is a lack of command and control in the barracks and the officers involved may have been possibly influenced by motives which are anything but moral in committing such an act.
I have been asking myself some questions too:
Were those officers involved influenced by promise of money or other items to commit such a horrible act?
If so, is it the norm in the disciplinary forces these days where officers are more concerned about their own desires than protecting the people of this nation, including young mothers?
Jenelyn’s death has also opened up another sore that must be taken care of.
It is the enacting of stricter laws to protect lives, particularly the lives of young women and girls.
How long will our legislators, the ministers and MPs, make those loud speeches in Parliament and not take the time to revisit our laws and see if some of those open sores can be healed.
At the moment, I am of the view that the all-men team in the Haus Tambaran do not seem to show any concern to step up and do something about this issue; where men are beating up their partners at will and getting away with it.
Is it possible that some of them are in relationships where they have problems such as those of Jenelyn and her partner?
Is it likely that our MPs also cannot see their way out of their own private affairs with their wife, partner or mistress too to stand up and do something to better protect the lives of people like Jenelyn?
Her death and the kind of response or lack of it by our political leaders reflects on the kind of MPs we have in Parliament.
I am embarrassed by this open sore and if nothing is done about this soon, there will be another story as Jenelyn’s in the next couple of months.
And that is not going to reflect well on this current crop of legislators, ministers and secretaries of departments who should be proactive in tightening up on this issue and laying down new rules and laws to better protect lives in our society.
For some of us, Jenelyn’s death is not just another scar, it is an open sore and that must be treated.
And the onus is now on the PNGDF and Police commands as well as our judiciary and Parliament to act.
The men who are in charge have to rise up and do something to prevent more abuses and deaths.

All violence is wrong