With the 2019 National General Election (NGE) date set for 3 April 2019, the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is now preparing its resources for the upcoming event and urges the communities throughout the country to work with the police for a safe and secure election.
Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in the Western and Choiseul provinces are investigating gunshots allegedly fired in Maleai Village, in the Shortland Islands on 6 February 2019.
It is alleged that at about 6.30 am this morning (6 February 2019) a group of armed men believed to be from Bougainville went ashore at Maleai and discharged firearms.
Police at the Henderson Police Station in Guadalcanal Province have arrested a 33-year-old man for the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl in a cocoa plantation at K-G Seven in the Tenaru area of Central Guadalcanal on 27 January 2019.
Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Guadalcanal Province, Superintendent Nixson Manetoga says, “It is alleged the defendant showed his private part to the victim and grabbed her and laid her on the ground in the cocoa plantation and had sexual intercourse with the victim.”
Officers from the Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIPF) Kukum Traffic Centre are investigating a collision between two vehicles on the Kukum Highway at the road junction leading up to the Florence Young School in East Honiara on 5 February 2019.
Director of the RSIPF Traffic Department, Superintendent Fredrick Satu says, “My officers attended a report of the collision of the two vehicles. One of the driver was tested with random breath testing (RBT) at the spot but was negative while the other driver allegedly escaped police after being taken for medical attention.”
Police in Guadalcanal is investigating a fatal logging accident involving two men at the Vavale Logging Camp in East Central Guadalcanal on 2 February 2019.
The fatal accident involved a Malaysian national who worked as a bulldozer operator and a local Solomon Islander who worked as a crew at the logging camp.
Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Guadalcanal Province, Superintendent Nixson Manetoga says, “The local male person is from Toanaboko Village.”
About forty officers from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) are currently undergoing training and screening at the Rove Police Headquarters in Honiara to be eligible for United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Missions deployment.
RSIPF Deputy Commissioner (DC) for National Security and Operation Support, Juanita Matanga says, “About forty RSIPF officers across the country have been undergoing training and screening to be eligible for United Nations Peacekeeping Missions deployment this year 2019.”
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is currently advertising internally for officers to fill up positions ranging from Sergeant to Assistant Commissioner within the Force.
“The call for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) in the positions started mid-December 2018 and will close on 15 February 2019,” says Deputy Director RSIPF-HR, Inspector Flotilda Sabino.
Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Choiseul Province made a total of eight arrests during the period 17 – 30 January 2019 for various offences.
The various offences include one person for intimidation on 17 January 2019, five people for restriction on making liquor from 19-25 January 2019, one for simple larceny (stealing of general property) on 23 January 2019, and one for wilful and unlawful damage of property on 28 January 2019.
Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) at the Honiara Central Police Station on 29 January 2019 recovered an alleged five hundred Euro fake Note and an alleged United States fifty dollar fake Note.
“The fake Notes were recovered by shift officers from Honiara Central Police Station and they were worth around SBD$6,500.00 (for the Euro Note) and around SBD$400.00 (for the USD Note),” says Commissioner Matthew Varley of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) when addressing local media.
Police is aware of a report alleging a young female had been attacked by a crocodile at a river on North New Georgia Island in Western Province on 23 January 2019.
Commissioner of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, Matthew Varley says, “Police became aware of the report on 28 January 2019 and officers in Western Province are trying to communicate with leaders on the island to make a formal request for police to go and hunt for crocodiles at the said river.”
