2022-12-12 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Special Meeting Minutes December 12, 2022 Page 18 • Vice Chair Brown asked what is your level of experience in dealing with budgetary issues, policy issues (changing, deleting, or initiating new policy changes), crisis management, and interacting and cooperating with multi-government agencies. ➢ Benjamin Moszkowicz stated that at the Honolulu Police Department, we have a little over $330 million a year budget, and as a division commander, he's directly responsible for a chunk of that. He's worked in divisions where he's been responsible for millions of dollars worth of equipment purchases, and with that comes the requirement to be able to collaborate and cooperate with the department of budget and fiscal services. HPD is designated as its own little sub-purchasing unit, but anything over $25,000 they have to go to the city. He imagines it's similar here because the procurement laws are similar for the state. As far as policy issues, when he was assigned to the information technology division at HPD, in addition to handling infrastructure software and computer stuff, they handled and he was responsible for policies, changing, amending, and writing policies. They have research analysts who help them craft policies. At HPD they farm out all the department's policies to commanders, he has a lot of experience in issuing, changing, and deleting old policies and making sure those policies interact well with each other and that they reference the appropriate rules. In regard to crisis management, he had the unique opportunity earlier in his career to be a part of the APEC Planning Group, so in 2010-2011 they devoted a team of about eight officers to planning for this major event. They had 21 visiting heads of state; China, Russia, and the United States. They had a little over 14 months to plan for this and he was able to work with this team of people and was named HPD's Officer of the Year based on the management and planning skills that he demonstrated during this process. Regarding interacting and cooperating with multiple government agencies, one of the unique aspects of being in a large police department, is each division is of significant size, and that allows them a bit of autonomy to interact with state, county, and federal agencies and be able to effect actual change because they have a lot of resources that can help bring into collaborative partnerships. In his traffic role, on a daily if not weekly basis talking to the department of transportation services, budget and fiscal services, and department of facility maintenance. ➢ Edward Ignacio stated it was funny that they were talking about CALEA, in the federal agency, they have CALEA, he was actually in the CALEA implementation unit, Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement ACT. He was in the unit that was responsible for a $400 million budget, they had to ensure that carriers across the country were complying with law enforcement requests to adhere to subpoenas, phone numbers, and tracking. They dealt directly with congress and ensured that the country was compliant with that. Along with the officers, making sure they do subpoenas and services within the law. He led a team of scientists that were going out and testing all the