Results for Police and Crime

Stephen Parry, the President of the Australian Senate visited Tonga Police on 17 April as part of an official visit to observe Australian funded aid projects in Tonga.

Two men, including a crew man of a local ferry, have been charged with possession of an illicit drug, cannabis in more than 90 small packs.

A police officer from Nukunuku has been charged with reckless driving after allegedly hitting an eight-year-old boy with his police vehicle on Monday, 23 March.

A police manhunt is continuing in Tongatapu for a 28-year-old male suspect who is on the run after allegedly imprisoning his partner at a plantation in Puke last month.

Superintendent Steve Caldwell of the New Zealand Police is expected to become Tonga’s new Police Commissioner before the end of the month, when his contract is finalised.

The window of a Tonga Police car was smashed allegedly by students who threw rocks when police arrived to break up two large groups of students who were about to fight at the bus station on Saturday, February 21.

Four men were arrested on Monday, February 16 for an armed robbery at a Chinese Shop on Tu’i Road in Neiafu, after they fled with more than $5,000 cash.

A 39-year-old man is in custody for allegedly stabbing his 45-year-old uncle during an argument over a piece of land at Fatai on Wednesday, 14 January.

Two people have died and two more have serious injuries after being hit by vehicles at Ma'ufanga and Hihifo Road, while one woman was electrocuted after touching a wire at her home in Kolomotu'a, in the first week of the New Year.