Results for Police and Crime

Rev. Sioeli Finau (63) from Nukunuku is the fisherman who remains missing since heading out to Malinoa Island, off Tongatapu on Monday, 11 May. Police are appealing to fishing boats to report any sightings of him and the missing 25ft boat.

Three men who were found dead in different plantations in Tongatapu and Vava’u in early May, are reported to have died from heart attacks, said a police spokesperson in Nuku'alofa today.

A 71-year-old mother Tevunga Vaea, her daughter and daughter-in-law died in a tragic car crash on Saturday night 9 May, in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

Sione ‘Afa Teisina (28) who had been on the run for two-months was arrested by police on Friday night, 1 May for the alleged unlawful imprisonment of his partner at a plantation in Puke, Tongatapu.

Four workshops in Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence Training are being held to assist criminal justice professionals in Nuku’alofa from 24 April to 1 May.

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.