The Papua New Guinea police constabulary is revamping its recruitment process in an effort to address discipline problems plaguing the force. Police Commissioner Gary Baki told Radio New Zelaand that the maximum recruitment age has been lifted to 35 in an effort to allow more mature people into the force. Mr Baki says the length of time spent training will also be raised from six to 18 months. "There is so much incidences of police brutality that's been levelled against us. I think there are elements of very important aspects of training that we should be adding to our training syllabus that will help our policemen and women and help them understand why they have to do their job. I want the university to assist us in doing an audit of the recruitment training programme so that there is aspects of sociology and all these kinds of things that need to be built into so that we can understand the behaviour of the people we are serving. At the moment, six months is too short in the sense of what we teach our recruitment's which surrounds elements of law and not so much on the society that they are expected to serve. That is basically the reason that has drawn me into deciding to review the training syllabus in the college. It's timely now, considering the fact that our aspirations are for modernising the constabulary but at the same time converting Bomana into a centre of excellence. I really want to build a police officer, both academically as well to, in the sense that when they get outside, they know the type of society they are serving" said Baki. Source: Radio New Zealand
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