2021-01-15 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Regular Session Minutes January 15, 2021 Page 3 Chair Bertsch stated that the CPO program is short around the island, especially because priority is in patrol. Although, they still have the ability to address their concerns to the lieutenant or the captain of patrol. AC 'Connor stated that community policing is a philosophy. It is an assignment. In their commander's meetings, they say that the leaves don't stay in one yard. They blow over to other areas, and that' the same within their district. If they have enough community policing officers and SROs or other people available, they could have a little unit and do some investigations or enforcement. Chair Bertsch stated, "Clean up the leaves." • Traffic Report: AC Basque reported that as of January 8, 2021, they had 375 traffic crashes compared to last year of 515. Traffic fatality is 5 compared to 12 last year. DUI arrests for the month was 92 compared to 90 last year. For the month of December 2020, 5,743 citations were issued: 4,057 moving/regulatory, 331 seatbelt, 32 child restraint, and 1,323 speeding. There were no traffic trends. AC Basque further stated that regarding the analogy of leaves, they have been hitting downtown Alii Drive pretty often this week. People move from there and go someplace else, the county park, their homeless housing next to the old DMV. They are teaming up with the people who own the new Safeway who contracted a security firm. They want to hit the vacant lot, directly south, across the street from Henry St. There is a huge population there. Once they get in there, they have to go somewhere else. Deputy Chief Bugado reported on an in -progress incident requiring the Special Response Team. Information has not yet gone public. Personnel Report: Deputy Chief Bugado reported that the Chief has promoted Major Chad Basque to AC of Area II Field Operations and Major Sam Jelsma to Assistant Chief of the Administrative Bureau. Minus those in recruit class, they have 50 sworn vacancies. As of December 31 of last year, the department has filled 89.6% of their sworn positions and 83.3% of civilian positions. Both the 91 st and 92nd recruit classes are in solo assignments. The 91 st recruit class will end their initial probation on March 15 and the 92nd on August 18. The 93rd recruit class has 22 in academic training and will start FTO on February 16. They need to conduct background checks for 19 people for various positions. When that is done, they will work on background checks for the 94th recruit class. With the promotions of the Assistant Chiefs, there will be a domino effect of vacancies for majors, captains, lieutenants, and so on. Sergeants in their communications sections doing the background checks for the dispatchers. An administrative sergeant and officer are doing some of the background checks as well. Police officers and dispatchers