2022-12-12 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Special Meeting Minutes December 12, 2022 Page 5 testimonies, there's a lot of truth to back up the murder that is happening across our world with the vaccinations, it's not a conspiracy. We need a police chief who is truly awake to real people and private media sites where the truth is being spoken. No police chief can act if they don't have the truth. The chief also needs to be willing to act on it because the next phase that we're going into will be worse than the last phase. She stated children are being targeted, they are now being sterile. The number of cases of deaths and other things that are happening, it's literally taking out the human race and we're all just going along with it. The police are there to enforce the people that are propagating this murder and the false things that are happening. We need someone who is in the know, willing to see the truth, and willing to act on it. The police chief is the only one who would be standing in the way of our corrupt government. We also need a police chief who will allow the people the right to carry arms. We also need a police chief who will not be bought out because of money and threats to their family. • James O'Connor came before the commission. He stated all four applicants don't jump off the paper to him. He explained that he has 28 '/z years of experience in the Hawaii Police Department. The three things you need to be an effective chief from day one are time in administration, internal affairs, and/or CALEA. When you're the police chief, you're not doing the work, you're not out there taking cases, you're the manager of people. You need administrative experience; internal affairs, working with the union, discipline, CALEA getting the department accredited, and all the different policies and procedures. When he looks at the candidates, they don't have that experience. The former Chiefs; Lawrence Mahuna, Harry Kubojiri, and Paul Ferreira, all had that experience. He's not saying that any of these four applicants can't be a good chief in time. One thing that Honolulu should've taught everyone is when you bring in a chief that doesn't have that experience, you have some issues and they put people in places that shouldn't be there as well, they promote people to be deputy chiefs that probably shouldn't have been there. He stated that he knows the four candidates personally and professionally and he's speaking from his professional experience. He stated there are two issues with the police department right now. The first one is training. He explained that he's not talking about recruit class training, Sergeant Pagan and his staff does a great job getting recruits prepared. He's talking about the training of officers already in the department. He stated that the department doesn't do a good job at that at all and a lot of that is on administration. He believes that the patrol men in this department feel that hard work doesn't mean anything because when you get promoted, it's about seniority. How do you change that? You need a new chief to come in and say it's not about seniority anymore, you'll get points for seniority on the test, but after that, everybody should be equal. He feels Paul Applegate could be the best chief for this department moving forward. Recess was called at 10:15 a.m. the meeting reconvened at 10:25 a.m. EXECUTIVE SESSION