The Papua New Guinea government has called a national law and order summit in a bid to beat the country's crime problem. Crime, particularly violent crime, is seen as the biggest impediment to development in Papua New Guinea, deterring both foreign investment and tourism . Starting on Thursday, the two-day summit will bring politicians together with business and community leaders. However, many people say solutions to country's crime problem are already apparent - it's just that successive governments have lacked the political will to implement them. Here's Richard Dinnen in Port Moresby.
Crime is everywhere.
All over the world people rob, kill, assault, rape and destroy. Papua New Guinea is no exception. What is unusual here, and some would say bizzare, is that there is so much crime for a population of just four million people. While everyone acknowledges how much damage it does, so little progress is made in fighting crime. Finding an explanation for that is more than anyone can do in just a short radio report.