Port Moresby would welcome Australian police return

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Updated March 14, 2008 16:07:26

PNG's deputy Prime Minister Puka Temu has been speaking on the prospect of Australian police returning to duty in his country. That possibility was raised following Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's visit to PNG earlier this month. Canberra pulled Federal police out of PNG in 2005, after the government of Sir Michael Somare refused to guarantee them immunity from prosecution. But relations between the two governments have improved since then.

Presenter: Elizabeth Byrne
Speakers: PNG Deputy PM Puka Temu; Jim Torr, spokesman, Australian Federal Police Association

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