Results for Police and Crime

Leadership training for 92 Tongan Police officers and staff has focused on accountability, authority and responsibility. Tonga's Police Commissioner Stephen Caldwell said yesterday he expected to see a shift in police attitude when exercising their power.

Police are still looking for two civil defence sirens that were stolen from a pole in Kolovai earlier this month. A suspect has been arrested in Lapaha.

Three men and one woman were arrested last week, after Tonga Police discovered alleged drugs and cannabis on a property in ‘Umusi, Nuku’alofa. The four suspects were a 48-year-old man from ‘Umusi, a 49-year-old man from Houmakelikao, and a 31-year-old woman from Pahu. Another male from Houmakelikao was also arrested but his age was not released.

Police have arrested a man who works at the airport in relation to a complaint of theft filed by a passenger who arrived from New Zealand.

A nine-year-old boy went missing after being swept by a strong current at a beach in Vaotu’u on Saturday, August 5.

A 36-year-old man died on Thursday night, August 3 at Kolomotu’a when he was electrocuted outside his home as they were getting tents ready for his father’s funeral.

A female teller has been charged with embezzlement of around $7,000 pa’anga from the Bank of South Pacific Tonga Ltd in Nuku'alofa.

Both His Majesty’s Armed Forces (HMAF) and Tonga Police confirmed today that they were not involved in a massive cocaine seizure by the French navy from a yacht "off Tongan waters" in recent days. French media reported today that over 1.4 tonnes of cocaine was seized from a sailing boat.

Three men have been charged with possession of illicit drugs after a search warrant was executed by police at a home in Ngele’ia on Wednesday, July 26.