Originally from Karnataka, India, Asha has been working in Indigenous Affairs for the last 15 years and has worked across all levels of SAC, from grassroots through senior management.
There are currently 1,022 women in the AFP’s sworn (police and PSO roles) workforce (making up 23.9% of the sworn workforce), and 2,108 women in the unsworn workforce (making up 61.6% of the unsworn workforce).
Over the past nine months, nearly 160 packages were detected and referred to the joint operation set up to target criminal syndicates shipping contraband into the state.
Of the businesses in breach of workplace laws, eight had underpaid their workers and three had failed to meet pay slip and record-keeping requirements.
Financial details of several individuals and businesses were also unlawfully obtained, resulting in using credit card information to make a series of unauthorised purchases.
Bainimarama and Qiliho were questioned in detail at CID headquarters last month and a number of police files on various matters are in the process of being reviewed in the Office of the DPP.
During the hearing, Roberts asked whether particular nationalities or ethnic groups appeared more frequently in reports involving unlicensed or untrained drivers.
Lady Chief Justice Carr said the original sentence had understated the “deliberate cruelty, additional suffering and obstruction” that followed the attack.