2022-12-13 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Special Meeting Minutes December 13, 2022 Page 12 speaking, there has to be a difference in doing things, not taking away from policy and procedure, but dealing with different audiences, and different crowds of people. There may be differences in the way we carry out certain things however, we are one department and as the chief, she would put that out to the department in her expectations and visions that we are one department. Seek suggestions from command staff, such as how can we show unity, instead of being seen as "Area I vs. Area II" or "east vs. west." Spreading that out in the message, ask commanders how can they improve in that area, looking for their suggestions, taking those, and putting a plan into action. Talking to the officers, meeting with them, and expressing our vision, and our expectations, so that we can all be on the same page and operate for the most part in the same professional manner. ➢ Benjamin Moszkowicz stated as the chief, it's going to be impossible to change a culture from the top. Whoever gets the job, if they try to impose something down it's not going to happen. They're going to keep running into roadblocks. The key for him is to find out what common ground lies between the two parties. Find the common ground and use that to build. He guarantees that the officers in Hilo and Kona took the job for the same reason. They are all type A individuals and they like to complete which can cause division sometimes. He thinks focusing on unity and common values is important. He also thinks it's important to identify which best practices work in one area or the other and based on that starting point of finding those common values to then impose the standardization where possible. On Oahu, there are different patrol districts and some things just don't work as well in Waikiki as it they do in Waianae. That's to be expected, policing is a little different in those two districts. Whoever gets this job is going to have to involve the men and women who are on the beat doing the job and get them to buy into this idea that we're one department and after that, the dominoes start to fall. ➢ Edward Ignacio stated that he has a different perspective. He worked as a federal partner on this island. He saw that happening every single day. As a federal partner, he tried to do things with the department. It wasn't the individuals that he was working with, it was the procedures that seems inconsistent between Area I and Area II. As someone who wanted to help the community and use his outreach and breadth of experience, it was kind of frustrating. As stated earlier during one of the testimonies, regarding other federal partners, they all had that problem, and it was very hard. You want to do what's right, but sometimes it works better in Kona and sometimes it works better in Hilo and there's no consistency. Seeing that, he wants consistency, he wants it to be unified and they have to do that through leadership and getting on the same page. As chief, he plans on spending at least one day working out of Kona. He understands Hilo is the base, and he