Major Crimes Unit with RPNGC to be Disbanded
National Reports
A MAJOR police unit investigating organised crimes committed by felons such as prison escapee and suspected bank robber William Nanua Kapris and others is on the verge of being disbanded.
Sources within the Major Organised Crime Investigations Team (MOCIT) said police headquarters had issued a letter of instruction informing Boroko CID (criminal investigations division) to advice MOCIT members to cease operations as of today.
One of the reasons given was that MOCIT was set up outside of the CID establishment.
However, when contacted late yesterday afternoon, NCD-Central assistant commissioner Awan Sete said this was not possible.
He said as the head of the command, he would be the first to be advised of any such moves.
MOCIT was set up by the NCD metropolitan command to look into major crimes. One of its recent breakthroughs was the arrest of suspects involved in the 2007 Metals Refining Operations robbery in Port Moresby.
Sete said MOCIT had become a crucial operations unit since the Jan 12 escape of Kapris and 12 others from Bomana’s maximum prison facility.
He said if resources or funding were an issue, the obvious would be a reduction in manpower and logistics.
Metropolitan commander Fred Yakasa and Police Commissioner Gari Baki could not be reached for comments last night.
A MAJOR police unit investigating organised crimes committed by felons such as prison escapee and suspected bank robber William Nanua Kapris and others is on the verge of being disbanded.
Sources within the Major Organised Crime Investigations Team (MOCIT) said police headquarters had issued a letter of instruction informing Boroko CID (criminal investigations division) to advice MOCIT members to cease operations as of today.
One of the reasons given was that MOCIT was set up outside of the CID establishment.
However, when contacted late yesterday afternoon, NCD-Central assistant commissioner Awan Sete said this was not possible.
He said as the head of the command, he would be the first to be advised of any such moves.
MOCIT was set up by the NCD metropolitan command to look into major crimes. One of its recent breakthroughs was the arrest of suspects involved in the 2007 Metals Refining Operations robbery in Port Moresby.
Sete said MOCIT had become a crucial operations unit since the Jan 12 escape of Kapris and 12 others from Bomana’s maximum prison facility.
He said if resources or funding were an issue, the obvious would be a reduction in manpower and logistics.
Metropolitan commander Fred Yakasa and Police Commissioner Gari Baki could not be reached for comments last night.
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