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Mar 05
RSIPF EOD team conducts first awareness program for 2020

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team has conducted its first community/schools awareness talk on Unexploded Ordnances (UXOs) at the St Joseph National Secondary School Tenaru on 3 March 2020 attended by about three hundred students.

Officer-in-charge (OIC) EOD Inspector Clifford Tunuki says, “The aim of this program is to educate our men, women and children about the risk and potential threat that is posed by the presence of Unexploded Ordnances (UXOs) littering our environment since the Second World War some 76 years ago.”

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Mar 03
RSIPF investigates suspicious death of 50-year-old man in Guadalcanal Province

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at Henderson are investigating the suspicious death of a man in his 50s whose body was found at the junction of the main road and the road to Gold Ridge on the Guadalcanal Plains on 29 February 2020.

Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Guadalcanal Province, Chief Superintendent Ishmael Vunagi says, “Police received the report and attended the scene with the assistance of RSIPF Forensic officers.”

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Mar 03
RSIPF investigates traffic accident involving police officers in police vehicle in Malaita Province

The Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) is investigating a traffic accident on Kwainamoro road near Auki in the Malaita Province in the early evening of 29 February 2020 which involved three police officers travelling in a police vehicle and allegedly hitting two 18-year-old male students at the Aligegeo Provincial Secondary School.

It is alleged that the three officers were under the influence of alcohol when they left Auki Police Station in the police vehicle with the intention of dropping off two of the officers at the police married quarters near Kilu’ufi Hospital.

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Mar 03
RSIPF uproots marijuana plants in Rennell Bellona Province

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.

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Feb 26
RSIPF arrests female following death of 8 month-old baby

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at Henderson Police Station have arrested a female in her 20’s on 25 February 2020 following the discovery of the dead body of an infant baby buried in the Henderson Plantation area.

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Feb 25
RSIPF mourns the loss of a long serving officer

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.

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Feb 17
RSIPF impressed with work of CPCs in Choiseul Province

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at Taro Police Station have thanked the Crime Prevention Committees (CPC) of Panarui and Sasamunga in South Choiseul for bringing forward five suspects who allegedly committed different crimes in their communities to the police on 13 February 2020.

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Feb 17
RSIPF raids and confiscates kwaso and marijuana products in north east Guadalcanal

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.

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Feb 15
Police recapture two escapees at Burns Creek area this morning

The Police Response Team (PRT) of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) has recaptured prison escapees Frank Firimolea and Dilo Faiga at the main entry junction road to Burns Creek market between 11 and 11:45am on 15 February 2020.

Acting Commissioner Mostyn Magau says, “PRT have recaptured the two prison escapees with the help of communities through the provision of accurate information.”

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Feb 14
RSIPF investigates alleged sexual assault incident involving 5 yr-old girl in Malaita Province

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.

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