By ORCHY REX
THE Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) Training College at Bomana will only take in 250 new recruits this year (2025) due to limitations in training facilities and resources.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Training, N’Dranou Perou made this known yesterday during a leadership workshop at the Koitaki Country Club.
The leadership workshop was attended by ACP Perou and his five directors, discussing ways to improve the quality of police training in the training college.
ACP Perou said it is important to put in place structured training to ensure well-educated and professional police officers graduate from the National Centre of Excellence at Bomana.
He acknowledged concerns about the quality of police personnel passing out from the college and assured the public that the training team is committed to improving standards.
“We know there are critics going around about the quality of policemen and women passing out of Bomana Police College, and this workshop is all about how we can improve on that and produce well-educated police professionals,” ACP Perou said.
The leadership workshop, sponsored by the PNG-Australia Policing Partnership (PNG APP), focused on the theme “Getting the Basics Right through Monitoring and Evaluation”.
ACP Perou stressed that without proper monitoring and evaluation, there would be no way to measure progress or ensure continuous improvement in police training.
“We can try as much as we can, but if we’re not monitoring our process and evaluating our performance, then there’s no measurement to see whether we are advancing or not,” he said.
He commended his five directors for stepping out of their comfort zones and dedicating time to the crucial discussion.
“I also would like to thank my directors. As you can see, five directors plus my staff officer, we were able to come up here for an important part of our calendar year, bringing the leaders of the National Centre of Excellence together to discuss leadership issues and ways to improve our performance at the training college,” ACP Perou said.
He revealed that the RPNGC is making efforts to expand training programs to accommodate more recruits while maintaining quality standards.
The ACP said the college currently conducts officer training through its Cadet Program, which runs for three years, with the current cohort set to graduate in 2026.
“We will recruit an additional cadet squad next year to make it two squads. We would like to have three squads of cadets by next year going forward,” he stated.
Furthermore, there are plans to bring in trainees from other Pacific Island countries to train alongside PNG police officers at Bomana.
“It’s likely that next year, we’re going to get on board other countries’ trainees to join the cadet program in RPNGC.
“If it works, we might also have other countries sending in their cadets as well as regular police officers, and we will send ours too,” ACP Perou said.
He clarified that the recruitment process is managed by the RPNGC’s Human Resource Division, while the training college is responsible for training the selected recruits.
“The training college does not involve in the recruitment processes, but we give the HR team our conditions on how many we can accommodate and get them trained,” he said.
Given the current infrastructure, ACP Perou said the training college can only take in 250 recruits per intake, and the plan is to have two training intakes per year instead of just one.
ACP Perou acknowledged the support of the Australian Government through the Pacific Policing Initiative, which has contributed to infrastructure developments at Bomana Training College.
When the recruitment will be out
Iam Willie Ayako currently action Reserves comender lake kopiago LLG,
Koroba Lake kopiago District.
Hela province. I really interested to come there
I am Willie Ayako currently,Action RPSC comender of lake kopiago..,
I’m really interested to come to Bomona for this requirement in year 2025 .
Please dear Sir/Madam!
Intrested
When the final list will out for those who met requirements.
Apply already and waiting for the name list for next process
If we are not accepted but have the required grades,what are we going to do.Apply next year?or should you fit us in.
Please I’m interested to join PNGDF so could you include my name please
interested to join RPNGC
IT’S A GOVERNMENTS ULTIMATE DECISION.
I believe that we can’t do anything or change but, I do humblely ?% respect and request to the government that I as being a young citizen seeing that killing took place every where in Highlands region especially in enga and Hella provinces.
Please, if selection coordinator or HR of the Police reruitment officer sees that the applicant has one of them above or over one or two yrs above the required ages of requirements for especially Highlands, Please, accept and send them into training or interview them.
Because highlands especially Wabag are willing, take ownership, works are working with their fear heard the word of God and wishes enforced the law and order bringing peace much as quick time. Please Government wise to change recruitment more youg mand and wom to hold the flag up with the bottoms of the respected hands.
With that I highly asked that Please increase atleast 250 added the above 250 that you choose before.
Country needs more young police officers with potentials.
Thanks may God bless you all.
Am interested so It this recruitment applicantion is open or not yet.
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