The National Capital District (NCD) Metropolitan Superintendent’s concerns over the increase in troubles during the recent school cultural shows, is adamant to work together with the schools in the city to minimize such incidences from occurring again during school organized events. NCD Met. Supt. Silva Sika said the fighting incident on Saturday 19th August at Gerehu following the Gerehu Secondary School cultural show and the issues that followed the Caritas Technical Secondary School cultural show last week Saturday, only shows that criminal elements are accessing these events to commit crime and stir up trouble. The city’s police boss said he is considering talking schools into stop hosting cultural events, unless the schools can prove that they can provide good security during the shows, adding that school cultural shows should only be for the school students and their families to attend and not open to the whole public. Mr. Sika said this because the police manpower in the city of Port Moresby is not enough; therefore, police officers are unable to fully attend to crimes being committed on a daily basis and when such school events, although organized for a good purpose, turns nasty then the police will only have a whole lot more to deal with. “There is rapid crime and there is rapid population growth in the city, and the trend of crime is also changing,” said the Met. Supt. With that in mind, he said if schools plan on hosting cultural shows, then they should plan it properly down to the minute detail and security during the event should be a priority. But he suggested that the best way forward should be for schools to just stop hosting the cultural shows for now. Meanwhile, Mr. Sika said he has not been fully brief yet on the fighting incident at Gerehu, but he is expected to have that report tomorrow when he should be in a good position to give further details as to what happened.