APRL 8 2022
POLICE MEDIA
Two brand-new police vehicles were handed over to the Gulf Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Chief Inspector Jeffery Lemb today at the Southern Divisional Command Headquarters in Port Moresby.
Director Media, Chief Superintendent Dominic Kakas, handed over the keys to the two vehicles on behalf of the Commissioner of Police Mr David Manning.
Mr Kakas said the vehicles were purchased under the Kina-for-Kina scheme initiated by Commissioner Manning to replace the ageing police fleet of vehicles nationwide.
He said the police in Gulf had not been given new vehicles for a long time so the commissioner arranged these vehicles under the kina-for-kina scheme for the province.
Under the kina-for-kina scheme, Commissioner Manning wanted to alleviate the logistical problems for police nationwide so the constabulary entered into the arrangements with various open and regional MPs, whereby every kina they put in the constabulary reciprocated and purchased vehicles for their provinces and electorates. Similar arrangements were done for Namatanai Open, Madang Open, and Oro province.
Mr Kakas said for Gulf, the Constabulary was still waiting for the governor or one of the open MPs to participate in the scheme.
“Gulf has a serious mobility issue so the Commissioner made these allocations and whatever assistance that comes later from the leaders will ensure the province will have more vehicles,” he said.
Mr Kakassaid the vehicles were asserts for the Constabulary and must be looked after. He told the PPC to look after the vehicles so that they would last longer to be used for policing in the province.
Chief Inspector Lemb thanked Commissioner Manning for helping Gulf with the two new police vehicles in time for their pre-election operations. Mr Lemb said the vehicles would help them carry out their pre-election operations effectively to prepare for a free, fair and safe 2022 elections for the people of Gulf.
Meanwhile a hand-over-take-over parade is scheduled to take place on April 13 in Kerema where outgoing PPC Chief Inspector Maria Johns will hand over the command to Mr Lemb.
Mr Lemb said he would launch the pre-election security operations for Gulf Province on April 20.