NGI police commanders discuss policing action plan

By JUNIOR UKAHA
NEW Guinea Islands’ provincial police commanders are having a three-day workshop in Kokopo to discuss their plans for this year.
The workshop which started yesterday was aimed at equipping PPCs from Manus, New Ireland and West New Britain with provincial policing action plans.
The only province in the region with an action plan was East New Britain.
Regional assistant commissioner of police Anton Billie said action plans were necessary for guided police work as per directive from Commissioner Gari Baki.
“This workshop is in line with the commissioner’s directive for all divisional commanders and provincial commanders to come up with a strategic management plan,” he said.
“I have decided to call the PPCs to come together so that we can collectively develop a strategic plan for the division.
“I have called them in because they are the ones who will be implementing this strategic plan for the division in their respective provinces.
“The provincial police commanders will develop their own provincial action plans, which will align with the divisional plan which will then align to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) 10-year corporate plan.
“The RPNGC corporate plan is then aligned with Vision 2050.”
Billie said most times things were not done according to plan, which resulted in the waste of limited resources and poor performances.
He said an action plan was important because it set out the direction and activities police in the respective provinces would do to achieve overall policing aims and ambitions of the division and Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary.
Meanwhile, a senior police officer believes police behaviour and attitude can change for the better if officers start reciting the ‘Police Code of Ethics’ every time they start work.
Rigga Neggi, corporate planning director of the force, said the code of ethics summarised duties and responsibilities of police officers and what was expected of them.
Neggi said this yesterday when he opened a police planning workshop in Kokopo by telling participants to recite the police code of ethics.
They have once again recited the police code of ethics as they have done as young policemen and women at Bomana Police College in Port Moresby.