Police at Auki in Malaita Province today (9 August) conducted high visibility police presence in Auki town as a lead up to the Malaita Province Second Appointed Day 35th anniversary next week.
Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Malaita Province, Inspector Fredrick Pado says, “This high visibility operation is to reduce illegal alcohol consumption and other criminal activities in Auki.”
Inspector Pado says, “Several kwaso (home brew) products been confiscated from some of the Auki betel nuts stalls and currently investigation underway in to those matters.”
The high visibility police operation is coincided in preparation for 35th Malaita second appointed day celebrations with the theme-‘The Challenges of achieving better services in Malaita’.