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William Nanua Kapris and other hardcore criminals who escaped from Port Moresby's Bomana prison. Montage: Post-Courier
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By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby
The chairman of Papua New Guinea’s National Security Advisory Committee, Manasupe Zurenuoc, has announced an investigation into the recent breakout of 12 hardcore prisoners from Bomana maximum security compound and other escapes from jails throughout the country.
In a public notice, the acting chief secretary and chairman of the committee said a day after William Nanua Kapris and 11 others escaped from prison the NSAC had met and established a high level investigation team to conduct an investigation into the breakouts.
The team had been given seven terms of references to work on.
The seven terms in a nutshell were geared to establish the details of the breakout, provide a risk assessment of Bomana prison facilities and security protocols, provide a detailed security assessment of the current prison system in the country, consider the issue of resource allocation, jail administration and facilities, security protocols and procedures and personnel management and make recommendations.
The investigation will run for two months.
Zurenuoc said that the investigation is administrative and is running parallel to the criminal investigation by police and an internal investigation by the Correctional Services.
Source: Post-Courier url
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