Forty one police officers have been appointed as temporary biosecurity officers to assist the Biosecurity Authority of Fiji (BAF) with its operations around the country.
The officers have been appointed under the terms of a MOU signed between BAF and the police in 2009 for cooperation between the two organizations to tackle specific biosecurity threats.
BAF Executive Chairman Xavier Riyaz Khan said the 41 officers have been called upon primarily to assist BAF with border surveillance at Fiji’s wharfs and airports as well as to provide shop surveillance.
Khan said the officers will provide their agency with much needed man power to help them monitor various biosecurity threats in particular the Asian Subterranean Termites, the Giant Invasive Iguana and the Dalo beetle.
He said that they now have 50 temporary biosecurity officers operating around the country.
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