Police sent to investigate reports of threats against Covid-19 awareness team

FOUR police officers have been sent to Kiwai Island to check out reports of threats issued against teams conducting awareness on Covid-19 in Western, acting South Fly police commander Insp Soiwa Ricker says.
“These officers went to Kiwai on a dinghy today to check out reports that thugs were preparing to move around in a canoe to harass South Fly Covid-19 task force team that will be carrying out awareness at the island and nearby coastal villages,” he said.
“We don’t know why they are issuing threats. “These police officers were deployed to check it out.”
Insp Ricker also said the South Fly development authority donated K500,000 to the Fly Covid-19 task force team to build an isolation centre in Daru.
“They donated the money on Wednesday and work has already begun at the Daru General Hospital.
“That isolation centre after completion is to quarantine persons of interest.”
Insp Ricker said PNG Defence Force soldiers were monitoring the main Indonesian-PNG border entry at Weam in the Morehead local level government (LLG).
“So there are no people moving to and fro Sota in Indonesia.
“But then, PNGDF and police have no patrol boats at Bula and Torrasi along the coast.”