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DWU vice president administration, Benjamin Naing (right) presenting the computer to Inspector Wesley Tetanga (centre) and senior sergeant Franz Mongati of the Public Safety section of Jomba police station in Madang on Monday. |
The public safety (formerly general duties) section of the Jomba police station in Madang town will now keep their daily records and compile cases on computers.
This follows the donation of three computers by Divine Word University this week.
Vice president Administration of DWU, Benjamin Naing made the presentation to officer in charge of the section, Inspector Wesley Tetanga and his deputy senior sergeant Franz Mongati on Monday.
Mr Naing told the police that DWU was pleased to respond to their request for one computer and President of the University, Fr Jan Czuba instead offered to give two more, bringing the total to three.
Mr Naing presented the first computer on Monday and said that two others will be delivered after DWU’s technicians assemble them.
Mr Naing said maintaining law and order is everyone’s business and DWU was pleased to do its bit in partnership with police and others in the community.
Head of the ICT Services department at DWU, Chandana Silva, told the police that the University is in dialogue with the provincial government and Telikom PNG Ltd to expand wireless communication in Madang province and police communication is one of the areas that would benefit from it.
Mr Silva said once the collaborative work is approved, a 45 metre communication tower will be erected on the highest point of the DWU campus in December and this will beam wireless communication to as far as Bogia and to the Southeast coast bordering Morobe Province.
He said plans are that with the technology available emergency services such as police, hospital, fire services and disaster and emergency services office would be linked onto one communication network to share information during times of emergency.
Inspector Tetanga said the police were grateful to the university for responding to their request. He said research students and academics from DWU do source data from them and the computers will help them keep digitized records instead of the arduous task of sifting through manual records. Ends/
