Results for Police and Crime

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.

An off-duty 23-year-old Police Constable was charged for allegedly causing a car crash on Monday night, 15 December on Vuna Road that put two men in hospital.

A brawl among youths, alleged to have been students, erupted in central Nuku’alofa on Saturday afternoon, 22 November.

Two men were arrested after a prison warden's son was attacked with a machete during a robbery inside a warden's home at the Hu‘atolitoli Prison compound in Vaini on Sunday November 9.