Still Making Their Own Rules

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

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• 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

 

October 2006 Volume 18, No. 13 (C)