Who is PNG’s Police Minister?

Bryan Kramer takes extraordinary swipe at force for which he is responsible, saying it could take a generation to eradicate endemic corruption Bryan Kramer, the PNG police minister has said it could take a generation to eradicate police corruption. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Is PNG’s police force in crisis?

The report also found PNG faces a severe shortage of police: a ratio of one officer to every 1,145 people, far from the UN’s recommended ratio of one officer for every 450 people.

Is PNG’s police force the most corrupt in the world?

Papua New Guinea’s police force is the most corrupt public agency in the country, engaged in drug-smuggling, gun-running, and land theft, and beset by “a rampant culture of police ill-discipline and brutality”, its own police minister has said, in an extraordinary condemnation of his own force.

What does PNG’s prime minister say about unity?

In an address at Independence Hill in Port Moresby on Wednesday, the prime minister, James Marape, urged unity across PNG, asking its people to become “better citizens of this country” and to take back the country from the “hands of greed, corruption, complacency, laziness and recklessness”.