2024-03-08 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Regular Session Minutes March 8, 2024 Page 5 is 61.69%, overtime salaries and wages is 197.74%, and miscellaneous salaries and wages is 94.47%. Commissioner Bertsch asked if they have a new classification for Police Services Officer (PSO) and what their role and duties are in the department. Major Bird stated that they are using temporary police officer positions until such time the PSOs enter the recruit class. Chief Moszkowicz added that since they converted to monthly recruitment, they're having people who are done months ahead of when the recruit class will start so they took some of their 67 temporary positions which are already allocated by County Council and reassigned them to be PSOs. It's a Civil Service position but it's capped at 89 days. When the recruit class is ready to start, they will end the appointment for the PSOs, they will have a one-day break, and the next working day they will start the recruit class. Their seniority date and employment date will correspond to everybody else in the recruit class, including their probationary date. The idea was to hire them as soon as they're ready to be hired rather than have them get another job. They are helping with a lot of things in different areas of the department and there is a waiting list for their services. It has been pretty successful. Commissioner Bertsch applauded Chief for doing this so they do not lose recruits. Commissioner Bertsch inquired about a new line on the salaries & wages report which he may have missed on previous reports, the year to date CILV. Major Bird stated that this is cash in lieu of vacation. When people retire, instead of taking vacation time they have a set amount of vacation that they can take in cash. Chief Moszkowicz brought out that hopefully this fiscal year there will be a new citation program for the entire department that will allow officers to issue citations using their mobile desktop computers. They will be able to get better data of where citations are being issued and that will feed directly into their Records Management System. The goal is to have a map of where the speeding citations were issued and also crash data. • There were 20 commendations involving 50 personnel that were received since the last meeting (report is on file). There were other commendations that Chief Moszkowicz wanted to share: Officer Vincent Sanekane from Kona Patrol was the Kona Crime Prevention Committee Officer of the Month. He was commended for his exceptional investigative skills when he responded to a call involving a male untying boats at Kailua Pier. Officer Robert Ayau from South Kohala was commended by a party who was stuck on the side of the road and Officer Ayau stopped and helped. It is important to remember the positive impact small acts can have. Officers Troyson Reilly and Makena Nahooikaika from Kona Patrol were commended for coming out in the dark and cold to deal with a sudden death.