Authorities reject rumours that renewed trouble is brewing.
And Australia is in talks over future security arrangements after investing more than 2 billion dollars in peace in the Pacific.
On parade, it is the guardians of the peace, the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force -- soon to be without the backing of Australian firepower.
In this Pacific neighbour, only the Australian-led police are armed, at least officially.
The peacekeepers have the thanks of Solomon Islanders, including the prime minister's chief adviser on reconciliation and peace, Father John Patteson Ngalihesi.
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"The perspective about Australia for the nationals is that Australia's a saviour ... is a saviour to this country."
Confidence in the local police is still shaky, and police commissioner Frank Prendergast concedes as much.
"It's very central to our strategies that we recognise the past, that we're trying to build a police force that will serve the community in the future. And I do think, while there are still concerns about the police force, and there are bound to be, in the community, we're slowly regaining the trust of the community."
Australia led the 15-Pacific-nation Regional Assistance Mission, known as RAMSI, that put to rest five years of ethnic tensions over land in 2003.
Hundreds of people had died, and thousands were wounded.
Some police took sides and turned their weapons on the people.
The peace process eventually resulted in 4,000 guns being handed in, 1,000 of them either stolen from or belonging to police.
But police commissioner Frank Prendergast says that has not fully resolved the issue.
"I think there are probably fewer firearms in the community than people think, but there are more firearms in the community than I'm comfortable with.
Trying to actually quantity how many firearms are out there, if you did it on the basis of the number of instances where firearms are involved, you would say it's very low. But we also know there's information, intelligence, in the community that there are other firearms in the community that we're not seeing."
After years of training by the Australian-led mission, very few of the local police will ever be armed, only the riot squad and the protection units for key public figures.
Australia has built an armoury for when it happens.
For now, that armoury stands empty, but it should be in use by June next year.
Australia's Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, recently made her first visit to the region.
Six months into the job, she is pledging ongoing assistance after the Australian police are withdrawn.
"At no stage were we going to put a police force in the Solomon Islands, and I'd like to make that very, very clear. We will be giving support, we will give post-RAMSI support, in terms of advisory capacity and a framework that is at the request and with the consent of the Solomon Islands government."
Authorities have dismissed rumours of renewed trouble, stoked on social media in the name of notorious jailed militant Harold Keke.
The assistance mission has cost Australian taxpayers more than 2-and-a-half billion dollars and turned the Solomons into one of the most aid-dependent countries in the world.
Peace adviser Father John Patteson Ngalihesi says the country is divided over the drawdown of the RAMSI police, due to be complete by next June.
"We have mixed feelings on this. Some people think that it's too early. For me, it will be okay. We have reconciled the difficult parts. So the real threat is over. And people had enough of that. People are saying, 'That's enough. We must move on.' The conviction is everywhere."
