The Fiji Police Force will embark on formalising its community police posts.
Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu told the Nadi Business Forum last week they intended to push manpower to all community posts around Fiji.
“What we are facing now is that we are establishing units that were not formally established within our structure because of the demand on the ground,” Mr Tudravu said.
“With these community police posts, they don’t have any established positions. And when we want to get manpower for these police posts, we get it from another station.
“I have already told Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad in our budget this year, we will try and have the formalisation of all these community posts.”
Mr Tudravu reiterated that officers would provide proper coverage if they were well equipped.
“If we have 12 police officers at a police post, and they have their own vehicles and computers, or if they are on the island, for them to have a boat, the capabilities to support them might do good in terms of our coverage.
“At this point in time, the majority of our community posts, we make shifts of the police posts that are there because they’re not part of our establishment.”
