Top cop: Lae needs resources to protect, provide security

 POLICING resources to protect and provided security to State assets and businesses in Lae city should be similar to Port Moresby, Lae Metropolitan Superintendent Anthony Wagambie Jr says.

Wagambie Jr said police were determined to instill confidence in investors who were creating jobs thus, reducing unemployment and crime rates.

He said the location of Lae in the Mamose and Highlands regions meant it would see a lot of people movements daily.

“This scenario requires 24-hour police operations which we are mandated and trained to do,” he said.

“We need Lae MP Loujaya Kouza, provincial and the  Governments to support us with adequate resources.”

Lae Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Allan McLay assured Wagambie Jr, ACP Peter Guinness and PPC Augustine Wampe that companies would support police. 

“Government has confidence in Lae and investing billions.

“It requires the refurbishment and equipping of the six city police out posts to operate 24 hours,” he said.

The city policing plan will be re-defined into four patrol zones while sector patrol and foot beats will begin next month. The foot beat 

patrol  will cater for central business districts in Top Town, Down 

Town, Eriku and the main market areas.

The sector patrol will cover industrial areas including the main wharf, Malahang and Back road to Bumayong, Situm, Taraka, Kamkumung, Miles areas as far as Nadzab and along Bulolo highway to Niugini Table birds farm.