Police in Fiji say they expect to be told by the military about any real and credible threat against the head of the Army, Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
Commodore Bainimarama is quoted saying in Fiji that the military is investigating a Member of Parliament for allegedly speaking about a plan to assassinate him.
The MP is not named in the article, which appeared in The Review, and it is not stated when the comments are alleged to have been made.
Fiji's Police Commissioner, Andrew Hughes, says he has no knowledge of the allegations, which Commodore Bainimarama has not raised with him.
Mr Hughes says the military has an intelligence arm and may conduct such an investigation, but it cannot make any arrests.
"It would be reasonable to expect that we would be informed in due course. This may, in fact, be more of an intelligence gathering exercise in response to some threat that they've perceived through their collection mechanisims in Fiji. But certainly at point where the military felt that they had justifiable grounds to believe that this was in fact a real and credible threat, at that point I would expect that they would notify us and we would then assume a full investigation in relation to the threat."
