Police, FSVU launch new information system

THE Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary and the family and sexual violence unit (FSVU) have launched a new information system to protect women and girls across the country.
United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) resident representative Dirk Wagner said the system would allow better coordination between law enforcement authorities and for FSVU to improve to excess to justice and referral pathways for family violence survivors.
Wagner said this would help women and girls report cases easily to the authorities and register the complaints without being present at the station.
“The system will help police in the long run to keep more reliable data across the 46 FSVUs in the country and for victims to easily report their cases without the need to be in the police station,” he said. Wagner said the new system would also alleviate the burden on a police force that had limited manpower and resources to deal with law and order issues at the local, district and national level.
“This will be the building block of ending all kinds of family violence in Papua New Guinea because this will connect to all the 22 provinces,” he said.
FSVU director Supt Delilah Sandeka thanked the UNDP for the partnership.
“It will cut down on the work of record keeping by having electronic data and we can concentrate on some other cases without delay,” she said.
Supt Sandeka said as soon as all the police stations in the National Capital District were registered in the system, they would continue with other provinces.