CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji
      Analysis

      Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco…

      PNG Prime Minister James Marape (right) and MPs "pray for wisdom"
      Decolonisation

      ‘This is a difficult task’: PNG parliament to finally address Bougainville…

      A bushfire comes close to a residential area in Hohola, Port Moresby
      Climate

      PNG’s tinder-dry Central Province and NCD struggle under El Niño

      A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website
      Analysis

      China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

      Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun
      Culture

      Lakapi Samoa CEO warns World Rugby sanctions could end Manu Samoa

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Home Police

Police

Latest
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
NSW Justice Desmond Fagan
Police

Segal’s speech code meets the law – Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s Israel exception

APR editor -
August 24, 2026
Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus
Police

West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian journalists

NSW Premier Chris Minns
Police

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and opens the door

Killed Fiji military detainee Jone Vakarisi
Police

Four months on, still no charges in death of man in Fiji military custody

Journalist and sports marketing official Charlie Charters
Police

Fiji High Court orders release of seven devices seized from journalist Charlie Charters

Indonesian police fire water cannon and tear gas on West Papuan demonstrators at Perumnas III Waena, Heram District, Jayapura City, Papua
Police

Large demos across West Papua meet with mixed responses by police

APR editor -
August 17, 2026
0
Police

Fiji’s Palestine solidarity group queries ‘unprecedented’ security for Israeli embassy

APR editor -
August 16, 2026
0
Lawyer Juleen Fatiaki, counsel for Charlie Charters
Police

Fiji judge orders motion seeking return of journalists’ e-devices seized by...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 14, 2026
0
Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi
Police

Samoa opposition leader arrested over comments about PM

APR editor -
August 14, 2026
0
Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138
Police

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

APR editor -
July 27, 2026
0
One of the capsized boats off the coast of PNG's East New Britain
Police

27 missing, including 11 children, after two boats capsize off Papua...

APR editor -
July 22, 2026
0
Suspect in his 50s is in custody and being questioned
Police

Fiji police arrest man over alleged social media threat to ‘burn...

APR editor -
July 20, 2026
0
"FBI Director Kash Patel sounds super stoked about the chance to become a 21st century J Edgar Hoover"
Police

Caitlin Johnstone: They’re launching a new COINTELPRO for the 21st century

APR editor -
July 18, 2026
0
Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism
Police

Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

APR editor -
July 14, 2026
0
Three inmates, who scaled the fence at Baisu Prison, were shot dead
Police

Dilapidated infrastructure blamed for fatal PNG prison escape attempt

APR editor -
July 14, 2026
0
Police presence at Australian Special Envoy Jillian Segal's presentation to the Bondi Royal Commission into Antisemitism hearing last week
Police

Antisemitism envoy Segal slams ABC, SBS ‘Israel bias’, wants to vet...

APR editor -
July 13, 2026
0
Indonesian military forces on patrol in the Oksop regency
Police

Indonesia defends high number of military deployed in Papua

APR editor -
July 6, 2026
0
The Fiji police and military have launched controversial joint security operations to take down criminal networks in the country
Police

Fijian widow alleges husband was beaten in police raid, told to...

APR editor -
June 30, 2026
0
Fiji human rights advocate Shamima Ali
Police

Calls to dismantle joint taskforce rejected by Fiji govt despite brutality...

APR editor -
June 16, 2026
0
Fiji police on duty
Police

‘Sodomised’ and ‘tortured’ – family of Fijian man allegedly beaten by...

APR editor -
June 9, 2026
0
Fiji police talk to a Palestine protest organiser, Fiji Women's Crisis Centre coordinator Shamima Ali
Police

Palestine supporters stage pickets in 3 cities in Fiji, NZ protesting...

Pacific Media Watch -
June 2, 2026
0
"That anyone in the White House took this plan seriously, let alone acted on it, is a genuinely staggering notion. But the proposition that [former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] could retake the reins of power in Iran is possibly the least preposterous part of the scheme
Police

Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now...

APR editor -
June 1, 2026
0
Joseph Vaa, 27, admitted gunning down suspected "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia outside a restaurant last week. Vaa's associate, Steve Tofa, 23, has confessed to being his accomplice in the shooting
Police

Samoan nationals could face death penalty over ‘Coconut Cartel’ killing in...

APR editor -
May 29, 2026
0
The moment "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia was gunned down
Police

Samoan police investigate after pair admit killing ‘Coconut Cartel’ ringleader in...

APR editor -
May 28, 2026
0
New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers flanked by regional police chiefs and Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu
Police

Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade...

APR editor -
May 23, 2026
0
Multinational police probe into Fiji officers
Police

Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade...

APR editor -
May 19, 2026
0
"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland
Police

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...

APR editor -
May 15, 2026
0
Load more

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm
Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Load more

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate
Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

Load more

BEARING WITNESS

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
Police

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians
Commentary

‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...

The number of Fijians who are HIV positive has risen to at least 9000
Editor's Picks

Fiji’s HIV epidemic has yet to reach a ‘turning point’, warns...

After two years of denial, Israel has officially admitted firing on the 5-year-old Hind Rajab’s car
Asia Report

Palestinian theologian warns against trusting Israel over Hind, medics killings probe

NSW Justice Desmond Fagan
Police

Segal’s speech code meets the law – Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji
Analysis

Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco...

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (right) and MPs "pray for wisdom"
Decolonisation

‘This is a difficult task’: PNG parliament to finally address Bougainville...

A bushfire comes close to a residential area in Hohola, Port Moresby
Climate

PNG’s tinder-dry Central Province and NCD struggle under El Niño

A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website
Analysis

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

Load more

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern
Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva
Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji
Analysis

Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco...

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (right) and MPs "pray for wisdom"
Decolonisation

‘This is a difficult task’: PNG parliament to finally address Bougainville...

A bushfire comes close to a residential area in Hohola, Port Moresby
Climate

PNG’s tinder-dry Central Province and NCD struggle under El Niño

A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website
Analysis

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

Editor's Picks

The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji

Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco...

August 26, 2026
PNG Prime Minister James Marape (right) and MPs "pray for wisdom"

‘This is a difficult task’: PNG parliament to finally address Bougainville...

August 26, 2026
A bushfire comes close to a residential area in Hohola, Port Moresby

PNG’s tinder-dry Central Province and NCD struggle under El Niño

August 25, 2026
A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

August 24, 2026
Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun

Lakapi Samoa CEO warns World Rugby sanctions could end Manu Samoa

August 24, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

August 22, 2026
Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus

West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian...

August 24, 2026
Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun

Lakapi Samoa CEO warns World Rugby sanctions could end Manu Samoa

August 24, 2026
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians

‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...

August 21, 2026
RNZ's Morning Report

RNZ tops trust survey, lifts radio and digital audiences

August 26, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8512
  • Politics6335
  • Human Rights4949
  • Syndicate4866
  • Global4264
  • New Zealand3718
  • Indigenous3159
  • RNZ Pacific2699
  • Media2397
  • Pacific Media Watch2212
  • Asia Report2184
  • Democracy2121
  • Security2012
  • Military1936
  • Justice1884
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz