Thursday March 20, 2025
Accidents are happening every day in the city of Port Moresby, and the storage location at the traffic office in Boroko is filled with accident vehicles, some of which have been cleared by the police and the courts.
The Commander of the National Capital District and Central Provinces, Benjamin Turi, is now calling on the owners of the accident vehicles to visit the traffic officers and clear up space for other accident vehicles that need to be there for investigation purposes.
Commander Turi said the car park at the traffic office must be reserved for accident vehicles only while they are being investigated. He further added that the officer in charge of the traffic office is in communication with him to find ways to relocate all the unclaimed vehicles to a location where they can be stored away.
“Vehicle hire companies or individuals that have their vehicles at the traffic office must visit the case officers and discuss how they will remove their vehicles home if the investigation has been completed. It doesn’t look good when the ragged vehicles are lying there. If the vehicles are there and the investigators are not doing their job, please write to us so my office can check on the investigators and find out why they are not attending to you. With that, I want you all to communicate with each other, especially the victims, the drivers, and the police investigators. Frequent communication will help speed up the investigation and also ensure justice is served to all parties involved,” Commander Turi said.
Turi further added that since the old police vehicles are now taken to Bomana Driving School to be stored there, the unclaimed vehicles should also be taken there.
