Police to probe alleged assault of public servant

POLICE will investigate a complaint filed yesterday by a senior public servant of his alleged assault by policemen, according to National Capital District Metropolitan Superintendent Perou N’dranou.
The complaint was lodged by National Airports Corporation (NAC) acting managing director Ephraim Wasem.
“We are yet to look into the complaint,” N’dranou said.
Wasem claimed to have been assaulted by three police officers from the Criminal Investigation Division in Boroko.
He named the officers who allegedly confronted him at the car park of a hotel in Port Moresby last Thursday and tried to force him into a police vehicle.
He claimed that three former NAC employees who appeared from a parked vehicle nearby also assaulted him and also tried to force him into the police vehicle.
It is understood that a senior police officer at the scene intervened and stopped the assault on Wasem.
Wasem later went to the Boroko police station with his lawyer where he was told to return the next day.
He said he was never arrested, charged or told of why he was wanted by police for questioning.
Wasem said he was injured and traumatised and had to receive medical attention.