{"id":22817,"date":"2020-09-18T12:10:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T03:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/18\/papua-new-guinea-police-accused-of-gun-running-and-drug-smuggling-by-own-minister"},"modified":"2020-09-18T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T03:10:53","slug":"papua-new-guinea-police-accused-of-gun-running-and-drug-smuggling-by-own-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22817","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea police accused of  gun running and drug smuggling by own minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Kramer takes extraordinary swipe at force for which he is responsible, saying it could take a generation to eradicate endemic corruption<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s police force is the most corrupt public agency in the country, engaged in drug-smuggling, gun-running, and land theft, and beset by \u201ca rampant culture of police ill-discipline and brutality\u201d, its own police minister has said, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kramerreportpng\/\">extraordinary condemnation<\/a> of his own force.<\/p>\n<p>Police minister Bryan Kramer used the occasion of PNG\u2019s independence anniversary to launch a swingeing attack on the police force, saying its endemic corruption would take years, even a generation, to eradicate. His statement follows a concession from the police commissioner, David Manning, that his force includes \u201ccriminals in uniform\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/18\/papua-new-guinea-police-accused-of-gun-running-and-drug-smuggling-by-own-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Kramer takes extraordinary swipe at force for which he is responsible, saying it could take a generation to eradicate endemic corruptionPapua New Guinea\u2019s police force is the most corrupt public agency in the country, engaged in drug-smuggling, g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22818,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions\/22818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}