Police officers who were killed on duty or died as a result of their duties, during the previous twelve-month period, were remembered yesterday morning at the Bomana Police College Chapel, outside Port Moresby.
Police Commissioner Gari Baki, while paying tribute at the Police Remembrance Day Service, hopes the event will grow bigger and better and involve the family members of the late officers.
Commissioner Baki said he will write to the Government to make this day a holiday to enable the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary to pay tribute to their unsung heroes who died in their lines of duty.
The Commissioner led the laying of wreaths to late Constable Samuel Pisa. The late Pisa was shot dead by criminals while attending to a complaint of armed holdup at Jade Island Trading Store in Alotau Waterfront, Milne Bay Province, in August.
He was married with two children and was from from Tubiri village in Mendi, Southern Highlands Province.
The service commemorated Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Australia and New Zealand officers.
