City police to remove drunks from streets to reduce problems

POLICE in Port Moresby are now removing drunkards from streets on Friday nights to cut down incidents and problems related to drunken people.
National Capital District Metropolitan Supt Perou N’dranou said drunkards created disharmony in communities that led to fatal clashes.
“Almost 70 per cent of crimes in the city are caused by drunkards,” he said.
“So if we remove at least one, then we are preventing about 10 or more people from getting into fights that can lead to a full-scale deadly ethnic clashes and damaging of valuable properties.
“We are also saving a mother from been bashed to death by her drunkard husband.
“We are also saving the drunkards from potential death or seriously being injured.
“They can be killed in a road accident or killed in a fight.”
The National accompanied police on Friday night on a three-hour patrol and picked up 25 drunkards, apprehended at 6-Mile, Erima, Ensisi Valley and Gerehu.
They were taken to the Gordon Police Station but they began abusing the police officers and were hosed down with water by the police before being locked up for the night. They were released on Saturday morning.
N’dranou said that the patrol will start as early as 5pm on Friday to remove drunkards from busy bus stops.