In an effort to prepare for the upcoming festive session, Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Makira-Ulawa provincial capital Kirakira conducted a traffic check in the township on 21 November 2017.
The officers checked for driver’s licenses, vehicle licenses, third party insurance and Road Transport Act’s required documents.
Police in Guadalcanal Province have arrested a 40-year-old suspect in relation to the death of a young girl at Avuavu in the Weathercoast area of South Guadalcanal which was reported to police on 17 November 2017.
The suspect was arrested by police at the Marau Police Station after being invited from his village at Haliatu on the Weathercoast of Guadalcanal. The suspect is expected to appear in the Central Magistrates Court in Honiara tomorrow.
Police in Auki, in the Malaita Province today, 21 November 2017 arrested a 40 year-old male at Auki market for the alleged sale of the drug marijuana.
Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Malaita Province, Superintendent, Timothy Apaesi says, “My officers responded to the incident after gathering information from a member of the public that a man was selling marijuana at the Auki Market area.”
“I am pleased with the public assisting the police in such cases because marijuana is a dangerous drug and is illegal to grow, possess and sell,” adds PPC Apaesi.
Police in Gizo, in the Western Province are searching for a missing male person in his 30’s who was travelling from Sagheraghi village, Gizo Island to Vonunu in Vella la Vella Island on 20 November 2017 and failed to arrive at his destination.
Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Western Province, Chief Superintendent Mathias Lenialu says, “According to the witnesses the missing person was allegedly under the influence of alcohol and was travelling by himself.”
As part of their preparations for the upcoming festive season, Police officers at the KiraKira Police Station, in the Makira-Ulawa Province visited remote villages at Marou Bay, in the Arosi 2 District 14 – 17 November to hold awareness talks on Family Protection, the Liquor and Dangerous Drugs Acts.
“During the operations, code named, ‘Mekem Pipol Save Moa long Law’ my officers visited five villages in the Arosi 2 District including Ahia, Tawaiabu, Taramatanga, Wairiri and Harenia,” says Provincial Police Commander, Makira-Ulawa Province, Superintendent Peter Sitai.
Police in Kirakira, Makira-Ulawa Province have arrested a man in his 20’s for the alleged sale of the locally-brewed alcohol known as kwaso on 17 November 2017 in the Waimasi area of West Makira.
Makira-Ulawa Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Superintendent Peter Sitai says, “My officers gathered information from the public alleging that a man was selling kwaso at Waimasi and so police followed it up and identified the man. Police then confiscated a total of eight bottles of various sizes containing kwaso and $550.00 cash.” The kwaso was brought in from Honiara.
Police at the White Police station in West Honiara are investigating an incident in the Tasahe area where a permanent residential building owned by the National Provident Fund burnt down Sunday afternoon 19 November 2017.
The residential building accommodated two separate families. No one was injured.
Police at the White River Police Station say that luckily no one was injured but both families lost all their properties during the fire.
With the Christmas festivities just around the corner, Police in Kirakira in the Makira-Ulawa Province together with two major stakeholders held a joint awareness talk at the provincial capital on 15 November 2017.
Police at the Kirakira Police Station along with officers of the Public Solicitors’ Office and the Kirakira National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) held the joint awareness talk covering issues including:
• Police and transport legislation (Amendments) (Alcohol testing) Act 2016
• Penal Code Amended Sexual Offence Act 2016; and
• Sea safety.
Police in Guadalcanal Province are investigating the death of a 17 -year-old girl at Avuavu in the Weathercoast area of South Guadalcanal which was reported to police on 17 November 2017.
It was alleged the girl went missing on 14 November after attending Bubutasi Primary School in Avuavu and her parents have been searching for her until 17 November 2017 when her body was found in a bush inland of Avuavu lake; called Churuna area.
Police in Auki, Malaita Province have arrested a 17-year-old boy in the township on 17 November 2017 for being alleged involved in the stealing of $5,320.00 cash from Malawai village in Central Kwara’ae, Malaita Province; on 11 November 2017.
Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Superintendent Timothy Apaesi says, “No money was found in his possession when my officers arrested him.”
PPC Apaesi adds, "The boy is a juvenile that still requires parental care and I urge parents to do more to assist the police with juvenile matters."
