Results for Police and Crime

Tonga's Police Commander Chris Kelley has ordered an inquiry into Tonga's prison escapes saying today that it is of serious concern to the police that over the past eight weeks 13 escapes were reported to them. Most escapees had been recaptured while two remained at large.

A 15-year-old girl from Ha'alaufuli drowned in Vava'u waters on August 11 after a small fishing vessel loaded with a funeral party of 39 people sank on its way from Neiafu to Ovaka Island.

Suicides in Tonga have reached to seven this year, after a 36-year-old man was found dead at Fangaloto on Friday, August 6.

Two men have been separately charged for the cultivation and possession of cannabis or marijuana plants at their homes in Lavengatonga and Vaini in Tongatapu.

Two male persons have been charged with unlawful possession of firearms, namely a .38 revolver and .9mm handgun, seized near the Mala'e'aloa Cemetery on Vuna Road on Sunday, June 27.

Two Asian persons residing in Tongatapu were robbed and held at gunpoint early Saturday morning, May 29 at the Tu'imatamoana Wharf on Vuna Road.

A senior police officer, sent to prison for one year for assaulting and injuring a man in custody in 2008, was told by Tonga's Chief Justice that the sentence would deter other police officers from taking the law into their own hands.

Two former employees at the Forum Travel office in Nuku'alofa have been charged with forgery and the embezzlement of $300,000 pa'anga.

Criminal investigators at the Tonga Police Services are being trained in the art of forensic digital photography using the latest equipment provided by the Australian Federal Police, during a workshop in Nuku'alofa, starting May 10.