RSIPV Lata is one of the Pacific Forum patrol boats Australia gave to the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force.

[1][2] Following the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea extending maritime nations' exclusive economic zones to 200 kilometres (110 nmi), Australia agreed to design, build, and donate patrol vessels to twelve of its fellow members of the Pacific Forum so they could police and extend sovereignty to their exclusive economic zones using their own resources.

[3] According to the Nautilus Institute, Malaitan militias commandeered Lata in June 2000, and used it to attack Guadalcanal villages and bombard Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands.

[4] Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr inspected Lata, and her sister ship Auki, on a visit to Honiara in August 2012.

[5] In February and March 2017 Lata engaged in a joint fishery protection operation with her sister ship from Vanuatu, RVS Tukoro.