Media Release
Johnny Santos CHIEF of FSM National Police FSM: Training Critical For All Police
February 8, 2018
[GUAM Feb 08 2018] “Human rights is an area I am not too familiar with, I know my government has made agreements to uphold human rights but I’ve never really known what exactly those agreements were,” expressed Johnny Santos, Chief of National Police Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Santos, who
George Lanwi, COMMISSIONER of Police, RMI: Working Closely With NGOs Is Critical
February 7, 2018
[GUAM Feb 07 2018] George Lanwi, who has been the Commissioner of Police in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) for the last twenty-years and a member of the RMI police force for 30 years, says that working closely with their women’s group, Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI),
Aloysius Aloriz, DIRECTOR of Bureau of Public Safety, Palau: Challenges of Policing Violence in Small Communities
February 6, 2018
[Guam Feb 06 2018] Director of the Palau Bureau of Public Safety, Aloysius Aloriz says that the recently passed Family Protection Act (2012) and the No Drop Policy are key tools to ensuring that survivors access to justice is ensured on the island of Palau, with a population of approximately
“It’s going to take all of us to address violence against women”: Chief Of Police Guam Joseph Cruz
February 5, 2018
[05 February, Guam] “One of the commitments I have made as the Chief of Police from Guam, is to assist police from across Micronesia by helping to culminate training, such as this, to up-skill and improve police responses to violence against women and domestic violence cases,” said Joseph Cruz, Guam
Executive Level Officers Determined to Make a Change.
November 26, 2017
Nadi (24 November 2017) Executive level Police Officers from around the Pacific have made commitments towards improving police services in addressing gender based violence (GBV) survirvors in their respective countries The officers were given an opportunity to discuss amongst their country groups a plan of action that they will be
47% of Homicide Victims Worldwide Are Women!
November 24, 2017
20 Executive Pacific Police Officers from around the region were given the hard-hitting facts of homicide statistics on a global scale. While 6% of homicide victims are male, a staggering 47% are female. Australian Federal Police (AFP) Trainers Vanessa Stone and Stuart Campbell emphasized how much of an epidemic violence