Media Releases

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at the Tigoa Police Station in West Rennell, in the Rennell Bellona Province have uprooted marijuana plants at Kanava village in central Rennell on 27 February 2020.

Supervising Provincial Police Commander Rennell Bellona Province Staff Sergeant Eddie Peseika says, “After receiving information from members of the community, officers went to Kanava village and uprooted the matured marijuana plants grown in the Village.

The Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) mourns the loss of one of its long serving officers the late Police Sergeant Edwin Manuga who passed away in Honiara 22 February 2020 after a short illness.

A funeral service for the late Manuga was held in Honiara on 24 February before his body was transported back to his home village of Rakao at Takwea in north Malaita.

The late Sergeant spent most of his 30 years in the RSIPF with the Maritime Department after being recruited on 8 February 1990. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in April 1997.

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force at the Tetere Police Station have successfully raided and confiscated kwaso and marijuana products at Tarilua Village in north east Guadalcanal on 11 February 2020.

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force at the Auki Police Station are investigating an alleged incident of sexual assault on a 5-year-old girl by an old man in his 50s at High Hill Village in the Fauabu area, West Kwara’ae in Malaita province on 7 February 2020.

The victim was sent by her parents to a nearby bush to collect fruit leaf for chewing betel nut when she met the suspect.

It is alleged that while in the bush, the suspect sexually assaulted her by using his finger on the victim’s private part.