Who is at the helm of the PNG police department?

The National News reported today that a local contractor upgrading roads in the Southern Highlands Province donated six tires to a police highway patrol car used by the policemen to curb lawlessness on the Highlands Highway.

Yesterday, the same paper carried a report on Binatang Trading Company based in Mount Hagen, Western Highlands Province gave a set of uniforms to the policemen and women in Western Highlands Province.

Left, Simon Sia, managing director of Binatang Trading handing over new set of police uniforms to the Police Commander in Western Highlands Province, Peter Rosire in front of policemen and women yesterday.

Time and again, we hear stories of policemen and women who resort to ordinary people who report their crimes to help them pay for gas and other logistic support to attend to their complaints.

We can't lay the blame on the policemen and women who work tirelessly under some tiring conditions to do the job not because they are well paid but the love and passion they have to do what they do best.

It is a shame for these men and women in blue uniform to ask the citizens of the country to help them in their daily police operations. The government has the sole responsibility to cater for what the policemen and women need throughout the country.

The government can't beat it's chest and say everything is in order. It seems that nobody is doing it's job as well as paying attention to what's going on back in our towns, districts, and villages.

Those who claim to be leaders always look for canyons to divert funds to subjective use as well as formulate cunning mechanisms to cling onto power so that their empires expand overtime at the expense of the majority who struggle to make ends meet.

If the government is concerned about combating law and order situations throughout the country; first and foremost, it must provide adequate resources for all police operations throughout the country.

It is the government's responsibility to make sure all police facilities throughout the country are adequately funded and resources needed are in place so that our good policemen and women can enjoy doing their work.

I think something is totally wrong here. Who is not doing his/her job? Who is in charge of the police department? Where are the funds to cater for such basic police needs? How much longer will policemen and women throughout the country need to wait to have these basic items for daily operations?