Victoria Young
AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch): Tongan police will go backwards without the leadership of ousted Police Commissioner Chris Kelley, warns the director of the kingdom’s largest women’s crisis centre.
Ofa ki levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki from the Women and Children’s Crisis Centre says Kelley made domestic violence a priority issue and was a necessary leader in police efforts to combat domestic violence.
“Having Chris here to guide that priority was important. We needed him to complete that task,” she told Pacific Scoop.
This report and many others were featured in the first batch of Asia-Pacific Journalism course stories filed this semester.
Read Victoria Young's full story on Pacific Scoop and other reports including:
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