Law enforcement in Kiribati

Law enforcement in Kiribati

The only forces permitted in Kiribati are a unified national police force, with prison and quarantine powers, and the coast guard. Defense assistance is provided by Australia and New Zealand.

The Kiribati Police Service is an independent body with one policeman/woman for every 222 people. Ioeru Tokantetaake is Commissioner of Police, and also presides over prisons in Kiribati. The Kiribati Police Service do not carry weapons.

The police operate the RKS "Teanoai" (301), a Pacific-class patrol boat provided to Kiribati by Australia as part of the Pacific Patrol Boat Program.

External links and references

*http://www.transparency.org.au/documents/kiribati.pdf
*http://www.csa.nsw.gov.au/AJCSD.staff.Kiribati.htm
*http://www.peacegallery.org/asiapacific/kiribati/kiribati06.htm
*http://www.isiservicescorp.com/mjcpatch.html
*Tokantetaake, I. (2000) ‘Changing the Kiribati Police Culture’, Unpublished thesis for the Master of Social Science (criminology), Charles Sturt University: Bathurst (Australia).
*Tokantetaake, I. (2003). ‘Policing in the new millennium: A description and Comparison of policing in Kiribati and Queensland, Australia’. Unpublished MPhil thesis, University of Queensland: Brisbane (Australia)


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