Media Releases

Members of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) Police Response Team (PRT) in Honiara have arrested a 30-year-old male suspect in relation to an alleged hit and run accident which occurred in the Town Ground area in the capital on 13 December 2017.

Supervising Director Traffic, Staff Sergeant George Mauli says, “On Wednesday 13 December 2017 around 6.15pm, the victim was allegedly crossing the road when he saw the traffic moving slowly when all of a sudden a vehicle heading in the easterly direction collided with the 10-year-old victim.”

Communities and residents in East Honiara will benefit from the multi-million dollar new Naha Police Station officially opened by the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Hon. Rick Houanipwela and the Australian High Commissioner to Solomon Islands, H.E Roderick Brazier at a ceremony on 14 December 2017.

The new Naha Police Station, funded by the Australian Government, was built at a cost of SBD $9 million. It is constructed on the same site as the first station that was built and opened in 1979.

The newly appointed Provincial Police Commander for Rennell-Bellona Province, Inspector Aloysio Manegaua has commenced policing activities in the province after taking up his appointment just a couple of weeks ago.

“Policing work in that province had been affected in the past several months due to certain issues but with the appointment of the new PPC, he has started working on activities to rebuild the confidence of the communities in that province in the RSIPF,” says Assistant Commissioner of Police, Provincial, Joseph Manelugu.

The Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) National Community Policing Team and the Media Unit participated in the ‘Carols in the Islands’ festival held at Lawson Tama Stadium in Honiara on 9 December 2017.

During the festival, the National Community Policing Team and Media Unit conducted awareness talks on different issues focusing on the Family Protection Act including sexual, physical, emotional and economic abuse.