Police in the city of Port Moresby continue to make good use of social media to help them effectively police the communities in the nation’s capital.
National Capital District (NCD) Metropolitan Superintendent, Silva Sika said the reason that police have been able to effectively attend to incidents in the past few months, was due to successfully use of social media to their advantage.
Although working with limited resources, Sika said social media has been a very good tool for police as they work to curb crime in the city.
“It comes back to our network and our communication,” said the Met. Supt.
“Currently we have this technology, and all of us are in WhatsApp groups. So it’s spot on, whatever that is happening right now, we just take a snapshot of the incident. So you will see all the units responding at the same time.”
He stated that this has been a very effective and useful tool, in terms of conveying information for police officers to act on.