Media reports say Australia is secretly funding a notorious paramilitary police unit in PNG. Source: AAP
MEDIA reports say Australia is secretly funding a notorious paramilitary police unit in Papua New Guinea to guard the Manus Island detention centre.
Fairfax Media claims the Department of Immigration is secretly funding PNG's "Mobile Squad" whose members "just last month beat a local man to death on the island".
Fairfax says the officers of the squad are getting a special living away allowance of about $100 a day compared with local pay rates of $1.50 an hour.
The squad has also been given three rented Toyota LandCruisers and the Sydney Morning Herald says the rental bill is "paid by Australian Immigration Department funds".
The newspaper says "on Friday the Immigration Department did not deny the payments were being made and said $558,821 had been allocated last year to cover costs associated with the temporary centre".
Fairfax claims the squad's presence on the island suggests "PNG and Australian officials fear a major clash with landowners" and says its name has become a "byword for police brutality in Papua New Guinea and many of its operations have been condemned by human rights organisations such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch".
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