Want to be a police reservist? Start by helping fight crime in your community

YOUNG men who are interested to be police reservists should be actively involved in their communities to address law and order issues, Lae’s law and order team leader Sam Oyaya says.
Oyaya made these remarks yesterday in Lae following a law and order awareness conducted by youths from the neighbourhood watch programme.
“Youths who want to join the police reservists next year should be actively involved in their communities to address law and order,” he said.
“You have to prove that you can be an agent of change in your communities before you take up training as a police reservist.”
Oyaya said an agreement was in place for the recruitment of police reservists next year so young men who are interested to join should demonstrate that by working as neighborhood watchers.
“Currently, the youths involved in the neighbourhood watch programme are volunteers from different suburbs and settlements in the city,” he said.
“They have volunteered to work for two months to keep the city safe.”
Oyaya said law and order in the city was everyone’s business.
“Individuals, churches, non-government agencies, business houses and government agencies can contribute in their own ways to address law and order issues for the city,” he said.