Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, says the country's police are being trained in counter terrorism and being re-equipped after years of neglect.
This comes after he told parliament that PNG faces a potential terrorism threat and police are investigating foreigners who have entered the country illegally.
The prime minister, who is also the acting police minister, says these foreign nationals are involved with some MPs who are protecting them.
Mr O'Neill says the government is taking up an Israeli offer to take 20 police officers and put them through a counter terrorism and transnational crime training programme.
He says the police are also going through a modernisation programme.
Mr O'Neill says many of the police assets had been run down for some time so in 2013 and next year the government is giving them more funding than they had requested.
