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Hawaii Police Commission Special Meeting Minutes December 12, 2022 Page 20 ➢ Sherry Bird stated as you progress in your career, you become responsible for certain things, and as you get promoted and rise up in ranks you get more responsibilities. Over time she had the responsibility of scrutinizing things such as overtime and requests for equipment purchases. She has written grants, and had to manage those grants. As far as policies, she has been directly involved in the drafting, review, revision, and deletion of policies. When she was a district commander, things happen that's in your particular district, so you have to come up and revise and get rid of some policies that may not be working anymore. As far as crisis management, our island is so big, so when the SRT team responds to an incident if they respond to the Area II side of the island then she is the incident commander for things that happen there. Along those lines with the interaction with multi-government agencies, in her career, she spent 12 years in the vice narcotics section, and she served in every position in that section. The vice section works hand in hand with our federal law enforcement partners because our reach is only so big so we do need to get that working relationship we have a great working relationship with our partners so that we can maximize our reach. Also with the DOE; community policing programs and school resource officers working with those kinds of agencies to help educate our kids as well. • Vice Chair Brown asked what makes you the best candidate for the police chief of Hawaii Island. ➢ Paul Applegate stated he believes that all four of them are very qualified and at the end of the day if you picked any one of us, you couldn't go wrong. He feels he's qualified for this position because of his collective years of experience in life and his job. He believes he's the best fit for this opportunity, for this community, and for this department to lead them in the direction where they need to be led. Given his experience in law enforcement, he believes his personality and ability to bring people together from different groups to bond emotionally and work towards a common goal, even though we come from different philosophies or different trains of thought on how some things should be done. He has a way of bringing people together to accomplish the mission, as evidenced by his disaster management and for these reasons, he believes he is the best fit. ➢ Sherry Bird stated as Mr. Applegate said, everyone is qualified up there. She feels like she should be selected. She would be the best fit because she has what it takes to lead our department in a purposeful manner, one that embraces creativity and innovation. She doesn't want to do the same things, the same way we've always done them just because that's the way we've always done it. we have to think outside the box and be creative, and innovative. She wants to focus on building and enhancing our community policing, and our community engagement strategies and improve upon our