Media Releases

The Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) has thanked the outgoing Commander of the Solomon Island Development Program (SIPDP) John Tanti for the great work he had done towards capacity building of the RSIPF during his three-year term.

Commander Tanti was farewelled during the weekly RSIPF Commissioner’s parade held at the Rove Police Headquarters in Honiara today (9 January 2020).

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) are investigating the suspicious death of a 40-year-old man at Rarata Village, on North East Guadalcanal on 2 January 2020.

Acting Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Guadalcanal Province, Superintendent Nixon Manetoga says, “On 2 January 2020 at about 10 am Tetere Police received a report from Rarata Village that there was a dead body found in a cocoa plantation behind the Village."

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) are continuing with its ‘Operation Hunt Man’ after three inmates escaped from the Correctional Services Solomon Islands (CSSI) Rove Prison on 15 December 2019.

Acting Commissioner RSIPF Mostyn Mangau says, “It’s been more than two weeks and we appeal to the general public to supply more and accurate information to your police so that we recapture the three convicted inmates. We urge members of the public to contact your nearest police station if you see or have any information on the whereabouts of the escaped prisoners.”

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) calls on members of the public to quickly report any person missing at sea after two persons from the Visale area in West Guadalcanal went missing at sea during a fishing trip on 28 December 2019.

Director Police Maritime, Chief Superintendent Charles Fox Sau says, “It’s not good to report such an incident after 48 hours. My office only received this report just this morning (30 December 2019) after the incident happened on 28 December 2019.”