Crime In Tonga

• Burglaries are the most common crime



• Wealth is increasing the gap between the rich and the poor which is leading to more burglaries.



• Young offenders (schoolboys) are usually ones who are involved in burglaries



• There is no prison for minors so they are to be locked up in the main prisons together with the hardened criminals



• There prisons have no fences or iron bars so its easy for inmates to escape