Appointed Acting Deputy Commissioner Aporosa Lutunauga
Assistant Commissioner of Police Aporosa Lutunauga has been appointed the Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police (A/DCP).
The appointment was formalised by the Commissioner of Police Rusiate Tudravu on Friday 5th September 2025.
The post of the Deputy Commissioner of Police was vacant from the time Commissioner Tudravu took over office on February 3rd 2025.
Acting DCP Lutunauga with 30-years of service under his belt, hails from Nawaca Village in Bua with maternal links to Galoa Island, Lekutu in Bua.
The former Suva Grammar school student was recruited in 1994, and his first posting was at the Labasa Police Station, and has since served in Delai Labasa, Lekutu and Northern Division Headquarters.
In 2003 he was transferred to the Police Headquarters where he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, and posted to the Academy as an Instructor at the School of Leadership and Management.
He has primarily been based at the Planning and Strategic Unit where he took up the roles of Manager Strategic Planning, Deputy Director and Director Strategic Planning, Policies, Research and Development in 2019.
In 2021, the Acting Deputy Commissioner was promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police and appointed the Chief Planning, Research & Doctrines officer.
In August 2022, he was appointed the Chief Administration Officer and in the same year in November, reverted to his post of ACP Research and Doctrine.
The Acting Deputy Commissioner has also completed numerous international courses in leadership, Security studies, countering transnational organised crime, UN Curriculum writer in China, Israel, Germany and Italy.
The Acting Deputy Commissioner’s service extends beyond the policing arena having assumed the roles of Chairman of Board of Directors of the Fiji Public Service Credit Union, Asia Pacific Rugby League Federation, Board of Governors for Suva Grammar School and recently appointed the Australian Federal Police to be the Co-facilitator for the Design Advisory Group (DAG) Pacific Policing Initiative (PPI) responsible for the setting up of 4 Centers of Excellence across the Pacific and Hub in Brisbane, Australia.
