Media Releases

Aug 13

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Guadalcanal Province are investigating the death of a 17-year-old male person from Balo Village in the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal on 9 August 2020.

Police at Marau received a report on 9 August 2020 from parents of the deceased saying their son went missing on Saturday 8 August 2020 after he did not return home in the evening and whole of the night.

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Aug 13

RSIPF officers at the Naha Police Station in Honiara have arrested a 77-year-old male person for allegedly raping his four years four months old step granddaughter in the Top Timber area, Ranadi, East Honiara on 10 August 2020.

The complainant is the mother of the victim who also lives in the Top Timber area at Ranadi.

Deputy Commissioner Ian Vaevaso says, “It is alleged that at 1 pm on 10 August 2020 the victim was playing inside their house whilst her mother was inside their room breast-feeding the victim’s younger sister.”

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Aug 11

The Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) Joint Border Operation Team and the Famoa Council of Chiefs held a meeting at the Kulitanai Village in Shortland Islands in Western Province on 18 July 2020 to discuss preparations for any outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the western border with Papua New Guinea.

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Aug 11

The new Commissioner of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) Mostyn Mangau today joined other colleague members of the Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police (PICP) to discuss via video conference, the progress to date on the work of the Woman Advisory Network (WAN) within each individual police force throughout the region.

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Aug 10

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, (RSIPF) National Traffic Department recorded eight traffic incidences during the period 31 July to 6 August 2020 in Honiara compared to the previous week when 31 cases were reported.

All the cases were reported by the officers of the National Traffic Department.

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Aug 07

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Honiara today farewelled their colleague officer the late Sergeant (Sgt) Rolland Ramoni during a funeral service at the All Saints Parish Church after he passed away on 5 July 2020.

The late Sergeant Ramoni, 49 years old, was serving at the Naha Police Station when he passed away.

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Aug 06

Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) is seriously considering ways to boost our security at the western border due to the increase of the number of COVID-19 cases in our neighbouring Papua New Guinea as well as Solomon Islands’ other borders.

The RSIPF has submitted an estimated budget of $46 million to the government for security at all the country’s borders for the extended four months State of Public Emergency. The proposed budget is to cover infrastructure, logistics, officers’ allowances and other operational costs.

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Aug 06

Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) officers at Noro in Western Province have arrested and charged a 60-year-old man at Paradise Village, on North New Georgia on Monday 3 August 2020 for allegedly raping his 16-year-old granddaughter.

An initial report say that in the afternoon of a date between 1st January and 31st January 2020, the victim was at her house looking after her small nephew while her mother went to the garden.

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Aug 06

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) in Auki in Malaita Province are investigating the death of an adult male person at Larowasi logging camp in East Are’are on 29 July 2020

An initial report says the deceased and two other employees of the Jubilant Logging Company went diving outside the Larowasi log pond between 8pm and 9pm on 27 July 2020. At about 12 midnight two of the employees returned home without the deceased.

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Aug 04

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at Auki in Malaita Province have arrested and charged a 45-year-old man for the alleged rape of a form six female student on board MV Anjenette at the Point Cruz wharf in Honiara on 24 July 2020.

It is alleged the incident occurred on board the vessel while at the Point Cruz wharf prior to departing for Malaita Province on 24 July 2020.The suspect works on the MV Anjenette.

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