Tag: Firearms
From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of...
Warning: This report discusses graphic details of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea.
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The nauseating stench of...
PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea police have arrested three men and seized a stockpile of unlicensed firearms, ammunition, explosives and other illegal items in a...
Transform Aqorau: Rethinking Solomon Islands security – focus on arms unsustainable
ANALYSIS: By Transform Aqorau in Honiara
It has been an interesting couple of weeks for Solomon Islands, with stories of policing, weapons, replica weapons and...
PNG opposition leader calls on lawyer MP to resign over shooting...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea opposition leader Belden Namah has called on a member of Parliament, Lohia Boe Samuel, to resign over the accidental fatal...
Undercover narcotics team seizes drugs, illegal guns in PNG hotel
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
An inter-agency team working with Australian and American investigators has busted a drug laboratory operating in a Papua New...
RSF protests over arrest of Filipina journalist for ‘planted firearms’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Lady Ann Salem, a Manila-based alternative journalist who was arrested...
PNG police minister says officers being probed for gun-smuggling, fraud
By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby
Retired and serving police officers in Papua New Guinea are being investigated for alleged offences such as gun-smuggling, fraud...
Former Tongan PM guilty on false statement, perjury charges
By Philip Cass
Former Prime Minister Lord Tu’ivakano will be sentenced at the end of next month after being found guilty in the Supreme Court...
Filipino shootout at PNG supermarket sparks demand for firearms ban
Police have charged a man with murder after the death of his security officer colleague in a shootout. Both men were Filipinos and investigators...
John Minto: Urewera 10 years on – recounting the lessons of...
On the 10th anniversary of the Urewera raids, we should recount the lessons – and we should remember.
Breathless police and media commentary about a...
Solomon Islands arms police force after 14 years
After almost 14 years, the Solomon Islands police force has been rearmed.
At a ceremony in Honiara last week the police force launched its limited...
PNG police in firearms refresher training to ward off public allegations
Senior police officers have been given a week's refresher training in the use of firearms following an uproar over the force opening fire on...