We kick off University of Adelaide Professor Joanne Wallis's quest by examining one of the most ubiquitous tools of statecraft in the Pacific - police reform - and the extent to which it has garnered influence in Solomon Islands.

Gordon Peake speaks with academics, on-the-ground observers and police officers to show that we may never reach 'peak police reform' and discovers the human casualties of this seeming process of forever reform.

With ANU Associate Professors Sinclair Dinnen and Graeme Smith; Former Commander of Participating Police Force in Solomon Islands Denis McDermott; Solomon Islands journalist Dorothy Wickham, Kane Johnson and the Agora Food Studio, Dili

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