Law enforcement in Samoa

Law enforcement in Samoa

Samoa has no standing army, as defense is the responsibility of New Zealand. However, Samoa does have a unitary national police force, the Samoa Police Service.

The Samoa Police Service operates the "Pacific"-class patrol boat Nafanua. It was provided to Samoa by the Australian Government as part of the Pacific Patrol Boat Program. Samoa took delivery in March 1988. It underwent a $T5.5 million refit in Australia in December 2004. Between 1988 and 2004, the "Nafanua" sailed a total of 118,000 nautical miles (219,000 km), performed over 12,000 hours of fisheries patrol and has been involved in the search and rescue of over 400 people.

Samoa has provided police officers to the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands since July 2003. Samoan Police officer Laulala Siitia is contingent commander of the Samoan police serving as part of RAMSI's Participating Police Force (PPF). Samoa's police force also served in East Timor as part of a United Nations peacekeeping effort to maintain peace and security in the region in 2001.

Australia will build a new police headquarters in the Samoan capital Apia, as part of a major initiative to strengthen the Samoa Police Service.

External links

*http://www.samoa.co.uk/20040520-pol-pr.html
*http://www.ramsi.org/node/27
*http://jawsamoa.blogspot.com/2006/09/preferential-treatment-of-media-by.html
*http://www.ausaid.gov.au/media/release.cfm?BC=Media&ID=2796_9831_8783_4372_1009
*http://www.pacific-pictures.com/samoa/index.html
*http://www.house.gov/list/press/as00_faleomavaega/etimor830.html
*http://www.isiservicescorp.com/mjcpatch.html


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