Media Releases

Aug 20

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is calling on those victims of street fighting that went viral on social media few days ago to come forward and report it for investigation.

This police appeal came after videos of youths or students involved in street fighting which has gone viral few days ago on social media.

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Aug 19

Kulitanai Police have arrested a 34-year-old male suspect for raping his 15-year-old niece in January 2025 in the Shortland Islands, Western Province.

Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Superintendent Wilken Miri says, “The incident occurred at the victim’s family home, where the suspect allegedly threatened the victim with a baseball bat and raped her when everyone was sleeping.”

PPC Miriki said, “The victim reported the incidents to one of her aunts in June 2025 after the defendant tried to harm her.”

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Aug 14

Auki police and a team from the Police Response Department (PRD) have arrested 11 suspects for disturbing the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Bina Harbor project meeting recently in Malaita province.

It was alleged that suspects armed with weapons caused disturbance and threatened people closely involved in the Bina Harbor project, which caused fear during the AGM facilitated by the Bina Harbor Project and the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR).

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Aug 14

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force [RSIPF] is calling for applications from men and women who are interested in a policing career.

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Aug 13

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) appeals to liquor license holders to operate strictly under their license conditions.

As part of the ongoing Zero Tolerance operations that have been conducted over the recent weekends, police have visited liquor license holders in Honiara.

During these visits, some businesses were found to be in breach of their license conditions, resulting in temporary closure of those establishments.

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Aug 13

The Police Academy of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) conducted a three-day training for Security Officers (SO) of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) at the Rove Police Headquarters on 12 August 2025.

The training is purposely to strengthen the work of SO currently providing security services at MFMR headquarters and provincial fisheries centers such as the Aruligo National Tilapia Hatchery, West Guadalcanal.

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Aug 11

Gizo police have arrested a 27-year-old male suspect for allegedly engaging sexual relations with his 13-year-old relative at Ranogga Island in Western Province.

The alleged incident occurred in August 2024, when the suspect reportedly threatened the victim on several occasions and ultimately committed the alleged offence.

Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Superintendent Wilken Miriki, says, “The victim kept to herself the ordeal she has encountered due to repeated death threats made by the suspect.”

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Aug 07

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is urging members of the public to show respect for police officers and government vehicles when carrying out their duties.

The call comes in response to a recent incident where officers have faced unnecessary verbal abuse and rocks being thrown at the government vehicles while responding to an overloaded vehicle around the Tandai area during the recent zero tolerance operation.

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Aug 07

Among the latest kwaso (homebrew) arrests at Gwailiki village in west Kwara’ae, Malaita province, is a female with two other male suspects.

Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC) of Malaita Province, Michael Ramosaea, said the suspects were arrested right on the spot while they were brewing kwaso.

PPC Ramoaea said they were apprehended and transported to the Auki police station for further investigation.

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Aug 07

Police is appealing to parents in Honiara to look after their children after police assist a missing child in the Borderline area in Honiara on 31 July 2025.

Operation (Ops) Commander, Zero Tolerance Mr. Simpson Pogeava said the 3-year-old child was brought to police for safekeeping, and later his parent called in at the police station and took him.

Ops Commander Mr. Pogeava said the child went out from their house in Gilbert Camp in the afternoon on 31 July 2025 without parental notice.

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