City must support police commander

 ALL of us in Port Moresby must support the Metropolitan Superintendent Benjamin Turi and his officers in their quest to clean up the police force in the city.

It is the right thing to do. To act like it is okay to have rogue police officers in the force is the same as allowing our country to go to the dogs.  

We, the residents, must give Turi, his senior officers and many other hardworking policemen and women our prayers and morale support.

Turi’s move to clean up the officers in the city is welcoming news. 

We have for a long time heard and seen police officers acting so unprofessionally, and in some cases criminally, that we have lost respect for them. Some residents are also more afraid of police officers than criminals. 

We are all aware that many honest, hardworking officers have to continually bear the shame and ridicule that the public showers on them because of bad elements in the force who do not honour the code of ethics they all had sworn to abide by when first donning the uniform. 

From the reports we have been seeing, PNG already has “terrorists from within” who have been having their way for so long because of a shady activities that some police officers are involved in.

My appeal to other police officers who are sitting on the fence is to choose the right side to follow. The right and full force of the law will eventually catch up with you. God too will visit you eventually. You cannot continue to allow your fellow officers to act unprofessionally and allow them to get away with it.  

In the case that you think the pressure is too much for you, just resign and leave the force before you get into more trouble by following the “bad elements”, who may be your friends. In the long run, your family too will suffer if you continue to sit on the fence. 

Remember the oath that you took to protect the people of this land, people who are being taxed so that you can be paid to take care of your family.

It is time for change, and please be part of the positive change, as Turi and the others are making.

PNG is changing and you must change or you will find yourself taken off the force and nobody will be around to feed your family.

Please think, and support the Met Supt and all the senior officers of the force who are just doing the right thing in trying to clean up the mess that has been here with us for so long.    

PNG Tauna

Port Moresby