Few cops ruining force’s reputation

DURING the early hours of June 10, at around 5am, a police vehicle (white 5-door) pulled up at Port Moresby’s 8-Mile second block bus stop near the market area.
I noticed two policemen consuming alcohol.
I ignored them, got on a bus and went to Gordon.
At Gordon bus stop, near the police station, six policemen, who appeared to be off duty, were standing around having a conversation.
One of them said: “We can ransack the street vendors, but we will get little from them so we should ransack big stores and get enough from them.”
What is this?
What are our policemen trying to achieve with this sort of mentality?
Aren’t they supposed to protect and serve us?
While the police minister, commissioner and assistant commissioners are working very hard to restore the integrity and reputation of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary around the country, some police officers are going around and damaging the image of force.
Their behaviour is really unbecoming of them.
This shouldn’t be happening.
The police hierarchy should have a log book to record every police-issued and hire vehicle.
They should record the vehicles’ destination, reason and time of usage.
The vehicles must be closely monitored.
Put mechanisms in place to control the movement of all police vehicles.
If their reasons are not valid, punish them.

Unhappy Citizen,
Port Moresby