Saonu launches reserve police training programme

By JIMMY KALEBE
MOROBE Governor Ginson Saonu launched the province’s police reservists training programme at the Gusap Training Centre in Ramu on Monday.
It was for the first batch of 120 young men and women who started their three-month police reservists training.
The training is part of Morobe government’s programme to help boost police manpower.
After training, they will be sent back to their districts to help with policing services.
“Police services are not reaching out properly to rural areas of this province,” he said.
“This resulted in some rural areas experiencing increase in law and order problems.”
Saonu said he hoped the programme would help ease the high rate of unemployment among school leavers.
Saonu thanked police Commissioner David Manning, Justice Minister Bryan Kramer, the Morobe administration and police in the Northern command for making the programme a reality.
ACP Northern commander Peter Guinness said the training syllabus was the same one taken at the Bomana Police College but would run for only three months.
He told the trainees that training would be tougher because it (this training) aimed at changing them.
“That is to make you understand and appreciate what it means to be a disciplined officer serving as a reservists in the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary,” he said.