Lack of resources to investigate reports of crime

AT LEAST 15 complaints of crime committed on social media have been reported but the police investigation unit has no office, experts or logistics to process them, Criminal Investigation Division director Mark Yangen says.
“We have a number of files waiting and we have not attended to them yet, only one case was arrested and convicted in Lae,” he said.
“Reports are coming in but we are sitting on them.”
Yangen said the division had no office to put their three experts to work. An office space at the airport was available but it had to be negotiated for, he said.
The office was used by the Investigation Task Force (ITF) during the Apec meetings.
Yangen said when a cybercrime was committed on Facebook, the officers would obtain a search warrant and then approach Digicel or bmobile to retrieving the information – where the call or message came from to track the user or offender, make an arrest and charge him or her.
He said the authorities wanted all these cases to be attend by our division, the problem is there is no manpower, logistics and mobility.
“We even have no computers that our officers can work with on the waiting reports while new ones come in,” he said.