Still Making Their Own Rules

Ongoing Impunity for Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture in Papua New Guinea

I. Summary

Methods

II. Background

The Situation as Reported in 2005

Papua New Guinea's Legal Obligations

III. A Continuing Practice of Police Violence

Beatings, Shootings, and Excessive Force..

Children in Conflict with the Law...

Sex Workers

Street Vendors

Sexual Violence..

Sexual Abuse by Guards at Buimo Prison in January 2006

Targeting Crime Victims

IV. Illegal Conditions of Detention

Detention of Children with Adults

Failure to Provide Children with Medical Care..

V. Consequences of Police Abuse for the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Harassment for Possessing Condoms

VI. Ongoing Impunity for Police Violence

Response of High-Level Government Officials to Evidence of Police Abuse

Police Failure to Discipline and Prosecute..

Police Shootings of Schoolboys in Enga Province..

Police Beatings and Gang Rape of Women and Girls in Raid on the Three-Mile Guesthouse, Port Moresby

Internal Disciplinary Sanctions and Criminal Prosecutions

New Police Procedures for Dealing with Children..

Responsibility of Magistrates, Judges, and the Ombudsman Commission..

Magistrates and Judges

The Ombudsman Commission..

VII. Australia and Other International Donors

VIII. Recommendations

IX. Acknowledgments