2023-04-21 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Regular Session Minutes April 21, 2023 Page 9 Commissioner Sur left the meeting at 1:36 p.m. Vice Chair Toci agrees with Chair Robinson and recommends $191,413 for the chief and $182,712 for the deputy chief. Commissioner Ing seconded. Chair Robinson stated this would be keeping pace with inflation. The commission agreed to that amount. Ms. Correa clarified and asked if they still want to recommend the two 5% increases. Chair Robinson stated yes, they should recommend that to the Salary Commission. Report from Vice Chair Toci regarding training she attended, Building Resilience in First Responders. Vice Chair Toci reported that on February 22nd she attended Building Resilience in First Responders. There was a combination of police officers, park rangers, lifeguards, firefighters, and personnel from Maui and Oahu. She explained that this training is rarely given to first responders. The Trainer was Nick Turkovich, director at the First Responders Support Network West Coast Trauma Center. He opened with suicide statistics among first responders. She stated the high rate is alarming with first responders on the job and retirees. She explained that she had personal matters she had to attend to and apologized for not being able to stay the whole day, she tried to stay as long as she could. The instructor wanted to make sure that departments focus on wellness for first responders. She stated that Renee Godoy did a good job coordinating this and expressed her gratitude to the chaplains who have an interest in our first responders and for providing this training for them. DCC Frenz stated the chief spoke earlier about wanting to record the meetings. It seems very easy to do, but the commission needs to be aware of what they say, a YouTube recording would be up for everyone to see. Chair Robinson stated due to the sensitive material that they discuss here, he wouldn't want that out there for public broadcast. DCC Frenz advised the commission that appearances matter; what you say, how you say it, and decorum matters. She advised the commission to think this through because if we go that route, it will be critical to make records. She further explained it is open hearings, the chief could bring someone in to record it. Vice Chair Toci stated she sees her point, this needs to be on the agenda and discussed further. • Consideration and discussion regarding the formation of a committee to look at recruitment and training. Commissioner Quartararo feels the recruitment process needs to be reviewed. There's so much detail they could get into and he believes they could help improve it. They're missing out on the recruitment of well -experienced officers from other jurisdictions out of state. Where he's from they had to revisit their general plan every five years. They had a committee made up of 15-20 people from the public and two planning commissioners, they didn't have to go through the regular process of calling it a