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Hawaii Police Commission Special Meeting Minutes December 12, 2022 Page 19 equipment around the country to ensure that law enforcement had a back door into these systems so it could comply with the law. When technology changed he had to change policy. They worked with carriers, as well as law enforcement which included major city chiefs and the national sheriff's association, at that level because they were changing legislation. In regards to crisis management, he stated that is completely in his wheelhouse, that was his specialty in the FBI. Regarding the APEC Conference, he was the lead planner for the entire FBI, he brought in 400 agents, several million dollars of resources, and a hostage rescue team. He had to make sure they filled every gap because it's a national security special event. The lead agency is the secret service, but there are some roles that are the responsibility of the FBI and he was the lead planner for that. He filled all the gaps, he dealt with every aspect from assigning personnel to what they were going to do on a daily basis to make sure they had the right equipment in place for personnel that were coming in from around the country. He was also sent to Super Bowls and he just came back from the Olympic Games, where he was the crisis planner. If something had happened at the event during the event he was one of the lead people on the ground to represent US interests. In regard to interagency cooperation, it goes hand in hand with CALEA. He was the head of the joint terrorism task force, they had all agencies, federal, state, and local throughout the entire pacific including the military. They were responsible for the antiterrorism mission. He has a lot of experience dealing with multi agencies in a collaborative environment and had shown a lot of success in that environment. ➢ Paul Applegate stated regarding budgeting issues, as the acting assistant chief at some point in time of all three bureaus at the Kauai Police Department, part of his duties is being tasked with preparing budgets for the bureau, submitting them to the chief of police, going over it, seeing what needs to be cut, and being fiscally responsible. As far as policy, he worked in internal affairs in the chief's office and it was part of his duties to review the existing policies with recommendations for improvements to the chief of police. In regards to crisis management, he's one of the few certified, type III incident commanders on Kauai. He was the incident commander for many disasters or near misses. As incident commander, he had many federal, state, and non- government organizations that he oversaw as incident commander and worked with those agencies to help preserve life and bring normalcy back to the residents. Multi-government agency, he touched upon that with his crisis management, but over the years in different capacities, he was the school resource officer and worked with many agencies such as the department of health and department of education. He collaborated with them on different projects and issues that were happening.