Thirty CPPD officers successfully complete ground control and defence special training in Honiara

A total of 30 Close Personnel Protection Department (CPPD) of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) have completed ground control and defence special training.

The training, which was jointly delivered by the China Police Liaison Team (CPLT), commenced on 10 July and concluded on 30 July 2026.

A three-week intensive training focused on Very Important Person (VIP) protection, close-quarters confrontation and emergency response.

Guided by the principle of minimum force, standardised operation and safe law enforcement, the training systematically covered practical policing skills, including safe fall protection, operational throwing techniques, dominant ground control and standardised submission tactics.

All tactical movements and on-site operational procedures were fully standardised and unified, greatly enhancing the officers’ capabilities in self-protection, close combat and sudden incident management.

Throughout three rotating cohorts, RSIPF participants demonstrated outstanding discipline, strong endurance and excellent tactical judgement.

Moving from basic technical drills to high-intensity scenario-based simulation and force-on-force exercises, officers have mastered full-set standing-to-ground defence and counter-attack capabilities, laying a solid foundation for front-line policing and security duty.

Assistant Commissioner (AC) National Operations Mr Lionel Kapisa has acknowledged CPLT for its continued and generous support of RSIPF’s capability development, stating that the training has greatly enhanced officers’ proficiency in ground defence, safe restraint and emergency response.

AC Kapisa congratulates the graduating officers, and he encourages them to keep training hard, uphold professionalism on every duty, and continue to serve and protect our communities.

CPLT Commissioner Bai Haitao said this training programme has witnessed the solid friendship, mutual trust and pragmatic partnership between RSIPF and CPLT.