Media Releases

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 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.

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 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.”