Pacific Beat

Email

Investigation underway as PNG police and military clash in another armed confrontation

Updated January 03, 2017 21:11:21

Papua New Guinea police are investigating yet another confrontation between the country's two armed forces, which saw gun shots fired early on New Year's Day outside a suburban police station in the capital Port Moresby.

Local media reports that police officers, including the head of the National Capital District police, were assaulted at the Boroko police station.

Former PNG Defence Force commander, Jerry Singirok, says the confrontation shows a clear breakdown in discipline for both forces and he warns it is the beginning of a dangerous trend.

Catherine Graue

Source: Pacific Beat | Duration: 3min 37sec

Topics: police, defence-forces, pacific, papua-new-guinea

Features

  1. Australians Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman accompanied each other on the red carpet, January 8, 2017. Globes red carpet photos

    Celebrities have descended on the red carpet at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards, but who made the biggest impression?

  2. Viola Davis, dressed in yellow, holds her Golden Globe for Fences. Golden Globes winners and losers

    Here are the winners from the 2017 Golden Globes.

  3. Duck Pond ambush Jinden massacre remembered

    Police will gather in a remote forest near the southern NSW town of Braidwood to mark 150 years since the worst mass murder of police officers in Australian history.

  4. Kosciuszko National Park The impact of a ski trip

    By the National Reporting Team's James Thomas and Alison Branley

    With the snow all but gone for the season, the ABC travels to the park to look at just how much of an impact humans are having on the unique alpine environment.

This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.

AEDT = Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time which is 11 hours ahead of UTC (Greenwich Mean Time)

Change to mobile view