New Zealand to help train Papua community police

Jayapura (ANTARA News) - The New Zealand Police are considering the possibility of cooperating with the Papua police in carrying out a program to train community police for Indonesia`s most-eastern province, a Papua police spokesman said.

To study the possibilty, the New Zealand Police`s manager for international strategy and policy, Jaquelyn Goodwin, was visiting police stations in Papua to collect inputs, head of the Papua Police`s public relations unit Sr Com Agus Riyanto said here Wednesday.

Goodwin, accompanied by an Indonesian police team, had already visited police offices in Manokwari, and was scheduled to come to police offices in Jayapura on Thursday (Feb 21), Riyanto said.

At a meeting with Papua Police Chief Insp Gen Max D Aer, Goodwin promised she would return to Papua in the near future with a concrete comunity police training program that can be implemented in Papua, he said. (*) END

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