Policing vital for law, order in society: Officer

POLICING is a key public service provided by the State to uphold law and order in society and officers should not be attacked or hampered in carrying out their duties in any way, a senior officer says.
Lae metropolitan police commander Chief Supt Chris Kunyanban said the police did not want to create differences with communities but, rather, to maintain a healthy relationship with people.
He said once people in the community started creating differences with police then there would be no collaboration and law and order, and peace in communities would be hard to maintain.
“Police will always be working with the communities,” he said.
“Only those that cause problems, let police deal with them while other community members have to assist to ensure there is order.”
Chief Supt Kunyanban said if there was no collaboration between the community members and police, there would be a law and order breakdown resulting in lawlessness and disorder.
“Policemen and women are human beings and in some instances, they may react to the kind of approaches presented to them by the members of the public,” he said.
“When police are too rough in their approaches, then report them.”
Chief Supt Kunyanban said in such cases, members of the public needed to do the right thing and report the offending policeman or woman or group of officers.