Law enforcement in Vanuatu
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Vanuatu
has a small mobile military force as well as a national police
service, the Ni-Vanuatu Police or Vanuatu Police Force (VPF), headquartered in Port Vila
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Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Coulton of the army, known as the Vanuatu Mobile Force, was sworn in as the acting police commissioner in 2002.
Vanuatu's current Police Commissioner is Lieutenant Joshua Bong, repacing Lui Patu Navoko on 29 September 2009.
Vanuatu has provided police officers to the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands since July 2003. Ni-Vanuatu police officer Benson Samuels is contingent commander of the ni-Vanuatu police serving as part of RAMSI's Participating Police Force (PPF).
Vanuatu
Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
has a small mobile military force as well as a national police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
service, the Ni-Vanuatu Police or Vanuatu Police Force (VPF), headquartered in Port Vila
Port Vila
Port Vila is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu. Situated on the south coast of the island of Efate, in Shefa Province, the city population at last was 29,356, an increase of 55% on the previous census result . This suggests a 2007 population of about 40,000 or around 65% of the province's...
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Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Coulton of the army, known as the Vanuatu Mobile Force, was sworn in as the acting police commissioner in 2002.
Vanuatu's current Police Commissioner is Lieutenant Joshua Bong, repacing Lui Patu Navoko on 29 September 2009.
Vanuatu has provided police officers to the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands since July 2003. Ni-Vanuatu police officer Benson Samuels is contingent commander of the ni-Vanuatu police serving as part of RAMSI's Participating Police Force (PPF).
External links
- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=49391
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2002_Sept_2/ai_91081476
- http://www.news.vu/en/news/aid/050402-Vanuatu-Police-Force-receives-new-vehicle-from-AusAID.shtml
- http://www.ramsi.org/node/30
- http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/s1737778.htm
- http://www.isiservicescorp.com/mjcpatch.html