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Public told to help clean up the RSIPF
THE media and the public are urged to help clean up the police force of those who want to use it for their own benefit.
Supervising Police Commander Juanita Matanga stated this in response to the recent media reports saying detectives working under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) within the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) have demanded an increase and pay back in their work and cloth allowance.
The report stated the officers warned that failure to do so by the police administration will lead to possible sit-in protest and the scaling down of JANUS taskforce.
“The police force is not an agency to earn money from but to serve our people,” Ms Matanga said.
“When any officers unprofessionally handled a situation like this, I urged the media to help straighten up the police force,” she added.
“The Police Force belongs to all of us.
“I know you received a lot of information that you want to disseminate but at the same time we want those information too to straighten up the policemen,” Ms Matanga told reporters on Thursday during the Police Commissioner’s weekly conference.
Ms Matanga said RAMSI will finish in June and therefore expect everyone to straighten out the police force.
“I urged the media to help us to get rid of officers who take police force as ransom for their own benefit.
“I have told the investigators if they step outside of their job as professional police officers then either you step up or step out,” Ms Matanga said.
She said police officers are expected to act professionally and if one of them go out to media and used that sort of tactic to deprive the good cause of investigations that people expect police to do, then it is not good.
“We will deal with officers who did this.
“I know you have the responsibility to report on issues like this but if any police officer take up this allowance as means to subject the work of police then I am sad.
“He or she is not in the right area to do this job.
“I know we have our own responsibility administratively to deal with things but we have to deal with it professionally.”
By ASSUMPTA BUCHANAN