Results for Police and Crime

Tonga's new Police Commander, nominated yesterday as New Zealander Chris Kelley, is expected to come to Tonga under an Australian and New Zealand Government funded Police Force Development Program worth over $4 million pa'anga, aimed at reforming the leadership and operation of the Tonga Police Force.

In a daylight robbery, three armed men ambushed a business cashier and shot her driver outside the commercial branch of the Westpac Bank of Tonga on Monday, May 26, snatching $3,000 cash.

Naulala 'Eli (64) has been identified as the shooter who killed himself at Ha'ateiho, after shooting and wounding his wife and a young man on the morning of Sunday April 6, in a drunken rage.

A New Zealander will be Tonga's new Police Commander, the Ministry of Police, Prisons and Fire Services announced on April 2, stating they had not found a suitable local candidate.

The body of an unidentified man was found washed up on the western foreshore of Queen Salote Wharf on Saturday morning, February 9.

Sefanaia Palelei of Halaleva has been identified as the shooter in the killing of Nuku'alofa businesswoman Mosimani Helu (50) at her home in Kolofo'ou yesterday, January 21.

Tonga's police are very concerned that a hooded gunman is still at large three months after the shooting of a Tofoa shopkeeper Lena Ying Jin (54) last October.

An armed man is still at large in Tonga after shooting and critically injuring a Tofoa shop-keeper in an attempted robbery on Friday night. Meanwhile, the victim's son has spoken out urging people to avoid another disaster in the making and to keep up good relationships.

DNA testing has identified eight people who died in the fire that gutted the Shoreline building on November 16, 2006 and the youngest was a boy of 13 years old, the Tongan Police confirmed today.