The Governor of Hela in Papua New Guinea has called for the Australian Federal Police to work in his province.
Francis Potape's call came following the completion of the first phase of the police and military call-out operation in Hela.
At the end of last year, 300 police and military personnel were deployed to Hela after months of tribal fighting and a build-up of high-powered firearms.
Since the callout, police have conducted a province-wide drive to collect illegal firearms in Hela which is home to the lucrative LNG gas project.
An amnesty for tribes to surrender their guns ended yesterday - with initial police reports indicating at least partial success.
EMTV reported Governor Potape as having said that moving forward, Hela needed more police manpower and a better direction with the use of AFP.
Potape believed having AFP in Hela's capital Tari would make a difference.
He said local police had been unsettled by changes in leadership and were under-resourced.
However, police in Hela had also been blamed for aiding warlords to smuggle guns into Hela.