Lae police vehicle involved in head-on collision

POLICE personnel in the Lae metropolitan command have been reminded to be careful with how they use their limited resources to perform their duties.
Metropolitan commander Chief Supt Chris Kunyanban said meetings had been conducted time and again to address the issue of how police personnel consensually use their limited resources, especially vehicles.
“On Monday, a meeting was called with the sectional heads and we talked about how best we can safeguard by way of using police vehicles for their intended purposes,” he said.
Kunyanban made these statements following a collision involving a Lae metro police traffic vehicle and another car near Nasuapum village along the Lae-Nadzab section of the Okuk Highway yesterday morning.
“For this incident, police will find out carefully and identify who is alleged to be in the wrong and has caused the collision. If the policeman or woman driving the police vehicle is in the wrong, definitely he or she has to be terminated,” he said.
He said police could not afford to buy vehicles and those that they had must be used within their intended purposes and within the boundaries of Lae metro command operations.
“Lae metro command had its boundary of operations that stopped at Nine-Mile, Bulolo turn-off, unfortunately, this police traffic vehicle was driven beyond that point, getting involved in that incident,” he said.
“The sad thing is that Lae metro traffic section does not have many vehicles, and the one involved in the incident at Nasuapum village this morning is a new one and who knows when it would be in use again.”
Kunyanban said this would only delay the many traffic duties that Lae metro traffic has to perform.
According to corporate and action plan for police this year, there were still more to be done by the traffic section.
It was one of the sections that was lagging behind due to manpower and resource shortages, especially vehicles.