Crime Prevention Maritime Security in kadavu

With the support of the UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji, a multi-agency team has returned from Kadavu after successfully setting up Crime Prevention Maritime Security Committees for the nine tikinas.

The initiative is an outcome of the Community Policing-Vanua-Multi-agencies Crime Prevention and Maritime Security model launched by Fiji’s Prime Minister Honourable Sitiveni Rabuka during the Kadavu Provincial Council meeting in July this year.

The “Solesolevaki ni Veitaqomaki; Matanitu, Vanua kei na Lotu”? initiative is based on a community policing and maritime security model?, designed to empower communities living in coastal areas, integrating traditional customary authority and vanua governance to ensure effective and efficient crime prevention and maritime security.

By adopting the holistic approach with the other stakeholders such as the Republic Of Fiji Navy, Fiji Police Force, Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji, Fiji Revenue and Customs Service, Ministry of Education FIJI, Ministry of Fisheries, Fiji, Ministry of Home Affairs and the Kadavu Provincial Council, licensed boat operators and community members are empowered to be the ‘eyes and ears at sea’, boosting efforts on the monitoring of Fiji’s maritime areas.

Kadavu was selected to pilot the solesolevaki initiative.