Chris Kelley should stay on as Tonga's police commissioner; Tongans' penchant for writing reports

Chris Kelley can clean up the Tonga Police Force. In one of the trials relating to the riot in 2006, a key piece of evidence, a videotape, went missing. When it was finally recovered, part of it had already been deleted. Its trail through the police department was tracked down to a cadet officer and a constable. The defendants were of course acquitted but what happened to the two police officers? A member of the then small Tongan community in the UK, i.e. before rugby union turned professional, related to me in 2006 of his shock when an inspector from the Tonga Police boasted of how he had punched a prominent Nuku'alofa woman unconscious and then raped her. The inspector completed his course of study, then returned to Tonga where he spent many more fruitful years serving King and country. And write reports. Tongans have a weakness for writing reports. The editor of the Matangitonga news website write reports for Transparency International. After the submission of one such report, TI rated Tonga as one of the world's most corrupt countries. Reports were already written about the MV Princess Ashika before it sank.. Even on the day it sailed on its final voyage, the vessel was inspected by an independent marine engineer for yet another report. The director of the Friendly Islands Human Rights and Democracy Movement also write a report; unbelievably, it is on the state of human rights here in Tonga. Since the FIHRDM only pretends to be a genuine human rights organization, you would expect the director to be writing a report for Stupidity International. But no! The report is actually read, dissected, digested, filed and probably memorized by a group of idiots from Christchurch, New Zealand who call themselves the Christian World Service, They seem to specialize in giving away money to unworthy causes. This week the FIHRDM announced its displeasure that Lt. Col. Tevita Mara, who alleges serious human rights abuses in Fiji, has been given a Tongan passport. No doubt the FIHRDM director will include the Mara passport in his report to the preschoolers at the Christian World Service.