Constables need good training: Magistrate

By DAPHNE WANI
A MAGISTRATE yesterday questioned if probationary police constables were properly trained at the Bomana Police College in Port Moresby on how to out
lay information in charging suspects.
Boroko District Court magistrate Laura Kuvi said that a lot of cases going to court upon information provided by probationary police constables were struck out or dismissed because most where defective.
“A lot of these cases have no elements of the charges” Kuvi said.
“The information was not particularised.”
Police prosecutor Bernard Kilei said they were trained well at Bomana but in some cases informants were only following the wordings of charges and not applying details of the elements to those charges.
Kuvi raised the concern yesterday during the case of Junior Ken, 28, from Parea village, Kerema in Gulf who was charged
with three counts of stealing K850 and a mobile phone from a
vendor near the Somare Foundation building in Waigani on Sunday.
Magistrate Kuvi struck out the case and discharged Ken who appeared from custody.