Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Western Province, Chief Superintendent Mathias Lenialu urges members of communities in the province against illegal alcohol activities.
PPC Lenialu says, “On 4 May 2018, my officers at Noro Police Station arrested and charged two men for alleged brewing alcohol without authorization from the Minister responsible for Liquor License. Both men were released on bail to appear in the Gizo Magistrate Court at a later date.”
Twenty five officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Honiara and Guadalcanal Province as well as departmental directors are attending a-week long Media Awareness Training from 14 – 18 May 2018 at the Rove Police Headquarters in Honiara.
Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Honiara City, Chief Superintendent Alfred Uiga officially opened the training.
“I am honoured to officially open this five-day Media Awareness Workshop and look forward to learning a lot from it,” says PPC Uiga.
Police at Henderson Police Station and members of public at Lungga area are currently searching for a missing Asian man at the Lungga River since yesterday (13 May 2018) evening.
“It is alleged that an Asian man from the Philippines went fishing yesterday evening at the mouth of Lungga River east of Honiara between 6pm to 7pm with two other colleagues when he went missing,” says Superintendent Nixon Manetoga, Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Guadalcanal Province.
Police at the Henderson Police Station, Guadalcanal Province have arrested a 20-year-old male in the Henderson area East of Honiara for an alleged rape incident on 11 May 2018.
The alleged incident happened in South Guadalcanal on 8 May 2018 and the matter was reported to police at the Henderson Police Station.
“My officers received the report and attended to it by visiting the scene and assisted the victim for medical attention,” says Superintendent Nixon Manetoga, Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Guadalcanal Province.
Police in Central Province plan to soon mount an operation in the provincial capital Tulagi to clean up on anti-social behaviors like black markets, causing nuisance at night, marijuana, illegal brewing of alcohol, drunk and disorderly.
More than 400 people at Bola Village and surrounding communities in Big Ngella in Central Province have benefitted from the presence and awareness talks by police from the Tulagi Police Station during a church program on 4 May 2018.
The Bola Community organized the program to raise funds for a new chapel.
People in three communities in Central Province have appreciated the presence of police during three different activities in the Province recently.
This included the land case hearing at Semege Sub-station near Boroni Village in North Sandfly from 17 to 19 April 2018, the Open Forum at McMahon School on Tulagi Island on 23 April 2018 and the blessing of the Marvel cement grave of the late Anglican Bishop Charles Elliot Fox Koete at Polomuhu Village, North West Big Ngella from 4 – 6 May 2018.
Police officers at Tulagi in the Central Province are investigating the death of a 72-year-old man on Savo Island on 10 March 2018 but only reported to police on 2 May 2018.
“It is alleged that prior to the discovery of the deceased on 10 March 2018, he was at his coconut plantation not far from his settlement at Guelomata near Koela Village on South Savo where his body was discovered the next day,” says Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Central Province, Superintendent Patricia Leta.
Police in the Central Province have executed its first Interim Protection Order in the Province on a 28-year-man under the Family Protection Act on 3 May 2018 as it warns that domestic violence cannot be tolerated.
Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Central Province, Superintendent Patricia Leta explains: “A male person from Toa Village, on Small Ngella and was married to his wife, the victim, in 2007 and the couple lived in the Foxwood area in Guadalcanal Province where his parents lived.”
About 300 students and teachers at the McMahon Community High and Primary School in Tulagi in the Central Province have acknowledged the awareness talk conducted on the issues of kwaso and marijuana by the police in the township today.
