2024-03-08 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Regular Session Minutes March 8, 2024 Page 4 They have several public awareness campaigns, as well as enhanced roadside sobriety projects, so it's an issue they face all the time and they're trying their best to curb the unwanted behavior. • Personnel Report: Major Bird reported that for sworn police vacancies through February 29, 2024, they have 63 unfilled positions. For police communications officer positions, there are currently 28 positions filled and 13 vacancies. For supervising police communications officer positions, there are currently 5 positions filled and 0 vacancies. The department has filled 421 of the 484 sworn positions (87%) and 119 out of 156 civilian positions (76%). Police Officer I recruitment is open on a continuous basis, and the written and agility tests continue to be administered monthly. The 98t" recruit class started in July of last year, and they have seven that transitioned to field training in mid-January and will go solo on May 16. For the 99t" recruit class they have 18 in the academic training portion, and they are projected to graduate on May 15. They were hoping to start the 100t" recruit class on March 18, but unfortunately due to circumstances beyond their control, scheduling with the doctor and such, they had to push that start date back to April 1. In that class they have 25 recruits that will be starting. The 101St recruit class is going to start on July 16 of this year, and they're still going through the various phases. They had the agility test in January, February, and last week. Right now they have approximately 30 applicants in that candidate pool. On April 3 they have another agility course which will add more to the pool for the 101St recruit class. Going back to the 100t" recruit class, they did have some applicants that have gone through all the phases of the background and testing and rather than losing them to other potential employers, on February 16 they hired four as Police Services Officers to get them acclimated to the department and what they do. They're working out of the Kona and Hilo stations, doing physical fitness training, and assisting with various duties around those stations. Also, to assist with background investigations that they need to do, they're hoping to hire six background investigators to assist in that process. As far as recruitments, they had the Police Officer III recruitment that ran internally in the month of February and Police Sergeant/Detective and Lieutenant recruitments which ran internally in the month of January. Those that have met the minimum qualifications recently took their written exam earlier this month. They also had the Police Captain recruitment and Major recruitment internally in January so they'll be working on filling those positions. They have continuous recruitment for dispatchers, account clerk, evidence specialist, clerks, school crossing guard, and radio technician. • Finance: Major Bird reported that the overall target expenditure is 64.13% and the actual is 63.27%. For salary expenditures for the month ending February 29, 2024, their target expenditure is 70.83% and the actual is 69.64%, regular salaries and wages