David Lazar — retired San Francisco Assistant Chief — is the first outside HPD chief in 90 years. He inherits 448 vacancies and a crisis driven by island structural conditions that mainland experience alone cannot address.
Read Analysis →17 tonnes seized in 2026. A Tongan customs officer and prison officer arrested. NZ Customs warning about trusted insiders in Pacific border agencies. This is an insider threat story — and ISPI documents exactly why island law enforcement is structurally vulnerable to it.
Read Analysis →Biketawa Declaration invoked May 11, 2026 for the Pacific energy crisis. Third invocation ever — after RAMSI and COVID-19. Eighteen Pacific nations facing supply chain singularity simultaneously. ISPI's WP-06 research documented this before the crisis materialized.
Read Analysis →Matthew Wale elected PM May 15, 2026 — replacing Jeremiah Manele via vote of no confidence. Wale once called the 2022 China security agreement counterproductive. The Chinese Ambassador visited him the next day. The agreement is still in force.
Read Analysis →When the Philippines declared a national energy emergency in March 2026 \u2014 the first country to do so following the Iran war \u2014 it became the most documented real-time case
Read →Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka in November 2025, affecting 2.2 million people and triggering a state of emergency that remained active through May 2026. ISPI
Read →The January 2024 PNG police riot was triggered by a 50% wage reduction \u2014 described as a computer error. ISPI
Read →Jamaica recorded its lowest homicide rate in over three decades in 2025 \u2014 a 40% reduction built on sustained investment in community policing. ISPI
Read →Three years after the Solomon Islands-China security agreement was signed, Chinese police are on their fifth rotation in Honiara \u2014 30 personnel. ISPI
Read →Operational experience in U.S. Air Force nuclear asset protection produces specific insights about critical infrastructure security in resource-constrained, geographically isolated
Read →Direct experience administering Clery Act compliance, Title IX coordination, and campus security on an island campus reveals gaps in federal guidance that no mainland institution f
Read →Operational experience protecting U.S. Embassy personnel in active conflict environments produces specific insights about institutional security in resource-constrained, geographic
Read →Standard BTAM frameworks were calibrated on North American continental data. In Pacific Island, Native Hawaiian, and small island community contexts, miscalibration produces system
Read →Island public safety policy fails when it is built on academic research that has never been stress-tested against island operational realities. ISPI
Read →Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander youth have been overrepresented in Hawaii
Read →Island communities worldwide share a supply chain vulnerability that no existing federal or international framework was designed to address. ISPI coined the term supply chain singu
Read →Pacific Island governments are making security decisions with consequences they cannot fully evaluate. ISPI
Read →From rural Hawaii schools to Pacific Island territory universities to remote Mediterranean campuses, geographically isolated institutions worldwide face an active threat response g
Read →From HPD to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service to Fiji
Read →From Lahaina to Vanuatu to the Caribbean, the same emergency management framework failure recurs. ISPI
Read →Island communities worldwide share three structural conditions that make standard insider threat frameworks fail — social density, workforce irreplaceability, and the social cost b
Read →Hawaii state agencies, Pacific territory governments, and island county administrations commission ISPI for island-specific policy research that mainland academic institutions cann
Read →UN bodies, Commonwealth programs, CARICOM, and allied government organizations commission ISPI for small-state and island-community security policy research that no academic instit
Read →Foundations funding public safety, community resilience, and indigenous community programs commission ISPI to build the evidence base that makes their grantmaking more effective.
Read →Hotels, energy companies, ports, and corporations operating in island environments face security and ESG risks that continental frameworks systematically underestimate. ISPI provid
Read →Pacific Island nation governments face security policy challenges no continental research institution was built to address. Independent practitioner-led research from ISPI fills th
Read →DHS, DOJ, and FEMA program officers commission ISPI for island and coastal-state research because standard federal frameworks were built for continental communities. Here is what t
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