By SAMANTHA ROGER- UPNG Journalism student
THE Western Highlands Governor Hon. Wai Rapa has questioned Police Minister Hon. Peter Tsiamalili Jnr on Police recruitment.
Rapa said that the police officers doing police recruitment were arguing among themselves on the recruitments and regarding recent termination of a senior officer.
“The police that we recruit now they have to have discipline they will have to know police investigations and all these is becoming very very important now,” he said.
Tsiamalili Jnr clarified that the situation that arose at Bomana College last month regarding two police women on police recruitment was unfortunate.
It could have been addressed in a peaceful way instead of using internal processes.
“To initiate our recruitment one of our biggest challenges was the challenge of nepotism and was a key element we wanted to stay away from and therefore we outsource the recruitments,” Tsamalili Jnr said.
It is the first that that the police department have outsourced the recruitments and was rigorous in its measures by having drug tests and collaborating with the education department with valid and required certificates in the process.
He also highlighting that 15 new common wealth workers will operate in the middle management starting with trial in Enga Province to have the first five recruitments in the common wealth countries to be inserted in the operational level.
Tsiamallili also urged all the members of the parliament to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) before Christmas to help establish hundred reserves per province.
