Friday November 21st, 2025
The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) completed its second batch of recruitment in the Highlands and New Guinea Islands (NGI) Regions which concluded Police Recruitment for the year 2025.
Given the influx of applications, the applications were batched into two batches. The first batch consisting of recruits from the Southern and Momase regions are currently undergoing Police Training at the National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) Bomana, while the second batch from the Highlands and NGI regions will go in for training early next year.
While the Constabulary intends to increase the number of police personnel and provide equal employment opportunity for all, it also sticks to the strict selection criteria ensuring those that passthrough for training are merit based and qualified.
A total of 2267 candidates were shortlisted from the Highlands and NGI Regions for interview. From the 2267, 1754 were from the Highlands Region and 513 were shortlisted from the NGI Region. For the Highlands Region, 509 were from Eastern Highlands, 457 from Simbu, 330 from Western Highlands, 209 from Jiwaka, 134 from Southern Highlands, 92 from Enga and 23 from Hela. For NGI, 198 were from East New Britain, 188 from West New Britain, 63 from Manus, 38 from New Ireland and 26 from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
The recruitment exercise is completed; however, the Team will finalize the list once they complete character reference check for those that passed and the total number of candidates that will undergo training will be released in the next press statement.
For the Second Batch of recruitment, a huge number of shortlisted candidates did not show up at all at the recruitment centres throughout the provinces while a good number of applicants did not have proper documents as per the requirement and few did not meet the height requirement. This has resulted in a chunk of applicants being ruled out.
As part of the Constabulary’s effort to improving the recruitment process, the Constabulary has done away with hard copy application and accepts online applications only. An online recruitment portal system is now being used for the recruitment process. This system has proved to be effective and transparent.
Also, the Recruitment Team has worked in close consultation and collaboration with key government and educational institutions like the Measurement Service Unit from the Department of Education to verify Grades 10 & 12 certificates, The NID and Civil Registry for National Identification Cards and Birth Certificate verification and all University Upgrading and FODE Centres to verify all upgraded transcripts. This corrected the issue of having applicants coming in with fake documents. The candidates with fake documents were warned and eliminated on the spot.
RPNGC stands ready and is committed to meet the government’s intention to increase police strength, however it is advisable that candidates who wish to join must be able to meet all the entry requirement and must apply with genuine documents.
For those that are interested and those that were ruled out in this recruitment drive and are still interested, be advised that the RPNGC Recruitment will have a call out in December 2025. Have all necessary documents prepared and apply come December.
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