Police at the Buala Police Station in the Isabel Province successfully reconciled and reunited a mother of six children with her husband after four months of separation during a reconciliation dialogue on 13 April 2018.
Provincial Police Commander Supervising, Inspector Oswald Iru says, “The mother after realizing the negligence of her children, agreed to return to her children and her husband during the reconciliation dialogue.”
Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force in Honiara are still searching for a missing man after recovering the body of a local woman who was found offshore near the South Sea Evangelical Church (SSEC) compound in Central Honiara this evening, 19 April 2018.
Communities on Kolombangara Island in Western Province will benefit from a newly built police post at Poitete which was officially handed over to police on 17 April 2018.
Kolombangara Forest Plantation Limited (KFPL) built the new police post.
Representatives of the Western Provincial Government: the Ministry of Police, National Security and Correctional Services; the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force; Church representatives, community leaders and members of the public in and around Poitete attended the ceremony.
Police in Kirakira, Makira-Ulawa Province are investigating an alleged rape of a 5-year-old child at Rurunga Village on Ugi Island on 12 April 2018.
Makira-Ulawa Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Superintendent Peter Sitai says, “So far no arrest has been made as police need more information about the alleged rape of the child.”
A man in his 30’s has been remanded to appear before the Eastern Magistrate Court in Kirakira on 26 April 2018, on one count of grievous harm.
It is alleged the man attacked his wife on 29 March 2018 after a heated argument as the man was allegedly under the influence of alcohol.
The matter was reported to Kirakira police after which an investigation was carried out resulting in the arrest of the man on 13 April 2018.
Police officers in Auki, Malaita Province have arrested and charged a 45-year-old man for multiple traffic offences after he was reported by several concerned people in Auki town that he was allegedly driving carelessly in the township on 10 March 2018.
“Upon receiving the report, my on duty shift officers responded and proceeded to locate the vehicle,” says Provincial Police Commander, Malaita Province, Superintendent Timothy Apaesi.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF), the Honiara Youth Council supported by the Solomon Islands Police Support Program from New Zealand (SIPDP) and the Solomon Islands Police Development Program (SIPDP) from Australia have conducted a one-day workshop at the Rove Police Headquarters on 14 March 2018 to discuss the factors driving young people to commit crime in the local communities.
The Police Response Team (PRT) of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) destroyed two crocodiles at Kolombangara Island in the Western Province on 13 March 2018.
Director of the RSIPF National Response Department, Chief Superintendent Stanley Riolo says, “PRT members were deployed in an operation to Western Province from Honiara following information from the people of Kolombangara that crocodiles were seen in the coastal area and rivers on the Island and were a danger to people there.”
The strategic direction of female officers in the Pacific Islands region is the focus of a two day workshop being held in Honiara, 14 – 15 March 2018.
The workshop, hosted by the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is coordinated by the Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police (PICP) Secretariat in New Zealand. Participating in the meeting are Women’s Advisory Network (WAN) representatives from Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu Police.
Police in Kirakira in the Makira Ulawa Province believe the introduction of random breath testing (RBT) and the series of public awareness meetings in early December 2017 about the device has improved the behaviour of vehicle and outboard motor (OBM) drivers in the provincial capital.
