Media Releases

Mar 01

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) reminds the public of the need to think safety first during the current bad weather.

The call comes after seven people went missing at sea after the boat they were travelling in capsized between Guadalcanal and the RusseII Islands yesterday (28 February 2021).

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Feb 26

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) at the Noro Police Station are trying to establish the cause of a fire that razed to the ground a police residential house at Noro in the Western Province on 25 February 2021.

Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Western Province, Chief Superintendent Mathias Lenialu says, “The burning incident happened between 2 and 3pm in the afternoon.”

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Feb 26

Despite being the most senior police officer in his province, he walks the several kilometres from the cops land near the Ngorangora airport to and from work every day at the Kirakira Police Station in the Makira Ulawa Province.

Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Makira Ulawa Province, Superintendent Peter Sitai, strongly believes that, “The prosperity of a nation depends on people who devote themselves to serve their nation.”

Superintendent Sitai, 49 years old from Pihuru Village in East Makira has his own reasons for joining the police force

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Feb 25

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force(RSIPF) at Henderson Police Station in Guadalcanal Province are investigating the suspicious death of a male student from Avu Avu Provincial Secondary School whose body was found floating along Bolavu river at Chelu village near the School on 24 February 2021.

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Feb 25

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) officers from the National Response Team deployed at the SI/PNG border had been threatened and Intimidated by Bouganvillians at the Western border with Papua New Guinea yesterday 24 February 2021.

Deputy Commissioner National Security and Operation Support Ian Vaevaso says, four officers from the Police Response Team (PRT) left Kariki base on 115 stab craft to conduct surveillance patrol along the SI/PNG border prior to PM visit to Nila in the Short land islands.

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Feb 25

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) denies allegations in the Papua New Guinea media that the Police Response Team (PRT) officers harrassed Bouganvillians who came inside the Solomon Islands side of the common border with Papua New Guinea.

In responding to the allegations Deputy Commissioner National Security and Operation Support, Ian Vaevaso says, “The report which appeared in PNG’s Post Courier newspaper 19 Feburay 2021 did not specify any date of the alleged incidents.”

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Feb 19

“Be passionate about your work and above all put God first in whatever we do.”

Those are the words of Inspector Eileen Rose Nala, 40 years old, of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF).

Inspector Eileen from Kadova Village in North East Choiseul who currently heads the Sexual Assault Unit at the RSIPF Headquarters at Rove, Honiara, has her own reasons for joining the Force

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Feb 19

Twenty-year-old Ruth Hellen Fendalyn who hails from Toghasalo Village in Isabel Province is one of the 30 female recruits into the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) out of the 70 participants in the first group of recruits for this year at the Police Academy at the Rove Police Headquarters in Honiara.

Joining the RSIPF is “a dream come true” for this young lass.

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Feb 16

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) at Tigoa, on Rennell Island, in the Rennell Bellona Province have arrested a suspect in an alleged murder incident of a 28-yr-old male person on 15 February 2021.

Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Renbel Province Staff Sergeant Eddie Peseika says, “An initial report on the incident say that the deceased and his uncle were in their kitchen at Avatai Village in west Rennell trying to light a roll of cigarette. The deceased was facing the stove to light his smoke.”

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Feb 16

For all of the recruits into the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, each of them have their reason for joining Polis blo iumi – Our Police

Police Constable (PC) Garnette Kwanairara, 30, from Darawarau Village in North Malaita, Malaita Province also has his reasons for joining the RSIPF.

Detective Constable Kwanairara is a Forensic Officer, Scenes of Crime Officer (SOCO) within the Forensic Services under the National Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) of the RSIPF at the Rove Police Headquarters (PHQ) in Honiara. A job he held since October 2016.

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