Media Releases

Nov 05

The Sexual Assault Team (SAT) of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) have arrested and charged a 38-year-old male person for allegedly raping a 11-year-old girl at Tuvaruhu in Central Honiara on 28 October 2020.

Assistant Commissioner (AC) Crime and Intelligence Patricia Leta says, “The defendant in this alleged rape incident is from the Reef Islands, Temotu Province and is an uncle of the victim. The defendant lived with the victim’s family in the Tuvaruhu area during the time of the alleged offence.”

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Oct 29

Members of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) Executive will benefit from eight laptops funded by the Australian Government through the Solomon Island Police Development Program (SIPDP) to assist in the COVID-19 operation.

Commander of SIPDP Mark Ney handed over the laptops to the Commissioner of Police, Mostyn Mangau during a brief ceremony at the Rove Police Headquarters in Honiara today (28 October 2020).

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Oct 20

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at the Henderson Police Station are investigating the burning down of the Aola Police Post in East Guadalcanal on 17 October 2020.

Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Guadalcanal Province Chief Superintendent Alfred Uiga says, “According to an initial report by a team of officers from Henderson and Tetere Police stations who travelled to Aola to investigate the incident, the fire could have been caused by a solar power battery and inverter inside the building. But investigations will continue to confirm this or otherwise.”

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Oct 09

List of candidates who will be attending physical test on 10 and 11 October 2020. All candidates should arrive at Rove Police Head Quarters at 6:30am on Saturday and Sunday respectively. List for the two days also been posted up in all the police station within Honiara and Guadalcanal Police. All candidates to take note that a temperature check will be conducted to each person before entering the Rove boom gate. Physical test will commence at 7:00am

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Oct 03

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is boosting static security at the two quarantine stations where the repatriated Solomon Islands students from the Philippines are accommodated as the Government declared the first positive COVID-19 case in the country this afternoon.
The positive case is a male student who had been repatriated from the Philippines earlier this week.

RSIPF will boost security at the Guadalcanal Beach Resort (GBR) east of Honiara and the Chengs accommodation opposite the King George Sixth National Secondary School in east Honiara.

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Sep 21

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at Gizo in Western Province have arrested a 19-year-old teenager from the Paeloge Heights at Vancouver Village, in Gizo Western Province in relation to an alleged sexual intercourse incident with a 14-year-old girl in August 2020.

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Sep 21

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) reassures the residence living in and around the location of the fatal bomb blast last night at Tasahe in West Honiara, that they are safe to continue with their normal activities.

The residence of the Tasahe area in West Honiara are only adviced to stay away from the location of the incident as it is a crime scene.

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Sep 20

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF)Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team and Forensics Department are now at the scene of a fatal bomb blast in the Tasahe area of West Honiara which occurred early this evening (20 September 2020).

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Sep 17

As the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) continues to lead across the Pacific in in gender equality, the new RSIPF Commissioner Mostyn Mangau is committed to gender equality in the Force.

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Sep 16

Relatives of the man whose dead body was discovered in the middle of the road in the Foxwood area on North Guadalcanal on the night of 13 September 2020 have come forward to identify him following a call from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force early this week.

The man, believed to be in 30’s, was from a village in the Lau Mbaelelea Constituency in North Malaita. He was residing at Sun Valley at the time of his death.

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