POLRES SORONG KOTA

POLRES SORONG KOTA was established in 1980.  It provides policing services to the Papua community 24 hours a day, seven days a week, working to keep over 2 million papuans safe.

Police officers and protective services officers (PSOs) are supported in their roles by public service professionals who work as administrators, managers and specialists in a range of functions such as legal services, accounting, psychology and forensic sciences.

Our workforce will be expanded in 2015-16 through the commencement of the recruitment of 400 police custody officers (PCOs) to take on prisoner management functions and supervise prisoners in police cells. Transitioning the supervision of prisoners to PCOs will increase our capacity to provide effective policing services to the community. We will also be expanding our PSO and transit police workforce further to support the State Government's Homesafe trial.

Effective frontline response service delivery is provided through 54 Police Service Areas (PSAs), split across 21 divisions within four regions - North West Metro, Southern Metro, Eastern and Western. These regional boundaries correspond with those of other Papua's government departments, enhancing cross-department service delivery, particularly in the area of emergency management.