A female journalist who was assaulted by police at the Boroko Police Station yesterday has called on the police hierarchy to better train their officers to be able to handle cases professionally and with acceptable standards. The TV Wan reporter who requested anonymity was covering a story on the arrest of students in the Juvenile Unit at Boroko Police Station allegedly for drinking in public when she was assaulted. The reporter said she was apparently punched and kicked by an officer who was in civilian clothing after she kindly asked the officer to return phones of students mostly females that were confiscated so they could call their parents. She said they had asked the Superintendant of Operations Brian Kombe to ask the officers to return their phone and he sent an officer to tell the officers to return the confiscated phones. The incident happened in the Juvenile Unit when the reporter continued to pester the officers to return the students phones as it was not appropriate that the phones were confiscated without them been arrested for the offense they committed. The aggrieved reporter said after she was assaulted, the officer was stopped by other officers and taken out of the station were he (officer) again assaulted others reporters outside.
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