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Aug 14
RSIPF records an increase in traffic incidences in Honiara

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, (RSIPF) National Traffic Department have recorded 20 traffic incidences in the period 7 to 13 July 2020 in Honiara compared to the previous week when only eight cases were reported.

This is an increase of 17 cases.

Complainants reported four cases while officers of the National Traffic Department reported 16 cases.

The 20 incidences included:

• Five cases each for careless driving and presence of alcohol in person’s blood;

• Three cases for using unlicensed motor vehicle;

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Aug 13
Traffic police investigate traffic accident at Central Market in Honiara

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) National Traffic Department in Honiara are investigating an accident on the main road near the Honiara Central Market on 8 August 2020.

Deputy Commissioner Ian Vaevaso says, “Information from witnesses at the scene say that a Toyota Land Cruiser veered off the west bound lane, breaking the median stripe fence and was at a stationary position in front of the Central Market Plaza, facing in the westerly direction on the east bound lane.”

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Aug 13
RSIPF investigates suspicious death in Malaita Province

Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at the National Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) Serious Crime Unit in Honiara are investigating the suspicious death of a one year and six months old baby at the Boeboe logging camp on Small Malaita on 30 June 2020.

Deputy Commissioner Ian Vaevaso says, “An initial report about the incident says the deceased was with the house girl at the Boeboe logging camp area when some Asian employee of the Global Logging Company arrived at the camp carrying the body of the deceased.”

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Aug 13
RSIPF investigates suspicious death in Guadalcanal Province

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Guadalcanal Province are investigating the death of a 17-year-old male person from Balo Village in the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal on 9 August 2020.

Police at Marau received a report on 9 August 2020 from parents of the deceased saying their son went missing on Saturday 8 August 2020 after he did not return home in the evening and whole of the night.

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Aug 13
RSIPF arrests 77 yr old for raping step granddaughter

RSIPF officers at the Naha Police Station in Honiara have arrested a 77-year-old male person for allegedly raping his four years four months old step granddaughter in the Top Timber area, Ranadi, East Honiara on 10 August 2020.

The complainant is the mother of the victim who also lives in the Top Timber area at Ranadi.

Deputy Commissioner Ian Vaevaso says, “It is alleged that at 1 pm on 10 August 2020 the victim was playing inside their house whilst her mother was inside their room breast-feeding the victim’s younger sister.”

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Aug 11
RSIPF joint border operation team meets with Famoa chiefs to prepare for COVID-19

The Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) Joint Border Operation Team and the Famoa Council of Chiefs held a meeting at the Kulitanai Village in Shortland Islands in Western Province on 18 July 2020 to discuss preparations for any outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the western border with Papua New Guinea.

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Aug 11
RSIPF Commissioner joins other Pacific colleagues to discuss WAN via video conference

The new Commissioner of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) Mostyn Mangau today joined other colleague members of the Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police (PICP) to discuss via video conference, the progress to date on the work of the Woman Advisory Network (WAN) within each individual police force throughout the region.

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Aug 10
RSIPF records decrease in traffic incidences in Honiara

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, (RSIPF) National Traffic Department recorded eight traffic incidences during the period 31 July to 6 August 2020 in Honiara compared to the previous week when 31 cases were reported.

All the cases were reported by the officers of the National Traffic Department.

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Aug 07
RSIPF farewells late Sergeant Rolland Ramoni

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Honiara today farewelled their colleague officer the late Sergeant (Sgt) Rolland Ramoni during a funeral service at the All Saints Parish Church after he passed away on 5 July 2020.

The late Sergeant Ramoni, 49 years old, was serving at the Naha Police Station when he passed away.

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Aug 06
RSIPF to step up security at country’s borders

Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) is seriously considering ways to boost our security at the western border due to the increase of the number of COVID-19 cases in our neighbouring Papua New Guinea as well as Solomon Islands’ other borders.

The RSIPF has submitted an estimated budget of $46 million to the government for security at all the country’s borders for the extended four months State of Public Emergency. The proposed budget is to cover infrastructure, logistics, officers’ allowances and other operational costs.

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