2023-01-20 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Regular Session Minutes January 20, 2023 Page 9 ➢ Chief Moszkowicz shared that he had the opportunity to attend the Aloha Exchange Club's Officer of the Month luncheon. Three of their officers were also honored there for their hard work. It was rewarding as a brand-new chief, and a brand-new employee seeing that they're out there doing hard work, they're dedicated, and we have a community that appreciates their efforts and rewards them. ➢ Mr. Richard Antonio expressed appreciation to Acting Chief Kenneth Bugado for following up on his email. ➢ Assistant Chief Burian reported in the dispatch center, a dispatcher was taking vitamins and it got stuck, she couldn't breathe and was about to blackout. She got up, tapped another dispatcher, and gave the universal sign showing she was choking. Rowell gave her the Heimlich maneuver dislodging two vitamins that were stuck in her throat and she was able to breathe again. Chief Moszkowicz stated they have an internal reporting mechanism for people who do outstanding work. They have medals for heroism and merit. He would like to see a public forum where they can award these things and have the families and the commission attend and have the media come out, take pictures, and run stories showing the great work that they're doing to help make the community safer. Commissioner Bertsch stated he feels HPD can do a better job at publicly recognizing officers for doing good work and the commission has missed that opportunity as well. He asked the chief, as he works through formalizing that program, to keep the commission in the loop because he feels the commission should also have a document they could issue. If we all work together, we could have that program put into place. Vice Chair Brown agrees and stated it would be good for the officers' morale because normally if they come before them, it's because of a complaint or something not so positive and this would be a good balance to that. Commissioner Toci expressed that she is thankful for West Hawaii media because they promote a lot of the good work that the police do, unlike the Tribune-Herald. She stated that she's trying to get Hawaii Tribune-Herald on board too, to promote these media releases for the officers. Commissioner Andrion wanted to know the names of the three officers that were honored at the Aloha Exchange Club's luncheon. AC Quiocho stated it was Jayce Carvalho, Sybastian Keltner, and Taylor Cruz. CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence No. 23-01: Annual Misconduct Report to the State Legislature. Chief Moszkowicz stated this is the copy that they sent to the State Legislature, as required