Transparency International in Vanuatu says, with the police mutiny trial over, it is most important that the Government re-establish confidence in the police.
Four of the most senior officers were this week given two year suspended terms for mutiny, inciting mutiny, kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Transparency International's spokesperson Marie-Noelle Ferrieux-Patterson says while the penalty is light, the officers will suffer substantially in losing their careers.
She also says it has to be remembered the trial was the final step in a very complex situation.
Mrs Ferrieux-Patterson says what everyone is looking for is that the government start trusting the police again, and end its support for a militia that has been maintained since the crisis began.
"I think we're hoping that things can go in a Melanesian way on a reconciliation basis that the government can see that the VMF, the force and the police, are behind them. So, I would say these guys have been punished in some ways, maybe not enough but they have been punished so lets move on."