2004-05-21 Police Commission Minutes

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Hawaii County Police Commission Regular Session Minutes May 21, 2004 Page 3 this man go. She has had two threats on her life which she reported. She has had calls at work that they would run her over. She wants the officers to know that she got a restraining order because she cannot handle this by herself, and she has a great deal of fear. Richard Swangel is a police informant, and she thinks this is one of the reasons why they continually look the other way. He should have been arrested when she had threats to her life by three different individuals. Would like the police to realize that a person doesn't get a restraining order for anything but fear, which she has, and she wants the police to honor the restraining order. The last time that she had a death threat, she called the police, but they never got back to her. There have been times when she called and they did not respond at all. In the incident with her husband, Richard threatened to beat her. Her husband stepped in, and they had a physical altercation. The police did not respond to her restraining order. Her husband got in trouble after the fact when Richard went to the public defender. WADE THOMAS (HPC 04 -13): Seventeen year old son of Jennifer Raulerson stated that he went into the store for five minutes, and the lady Kelly told him to get out. She called the cops on him. ELIZABETH HALL (HPC 04 -02): Stated that she was denied due process by being put at her fault solely on testimony of witnesses who were not under oath and without looking at any of the physical evidence TIM HALL (HPC 04 -02): Stated that it all comes back to the officer making out the little slip of paper and not telling his wife that they had witnesses against them. They did not get due process. The captain wrote a statement saying that he didn't feel they were at fault. If an officer is not trained to investigate, they must not be put in box #1 and they must not give out forms not filled out properly. The police didn't look at the skid marks, didn't look at the accident properly, and put them in box #1. The officer wasn't trained to properly investigate an accident when someone is seriously injured. NGAIRE BEST (HPC 04 -16): Stated that after the accident, Officer Watanabe checked the back of the truck which only had a cooler, barbeque items, and no alcohol. Officer Bell did a DUI road test on a hillside which Officer Watanabe pointed out to him. Officer Bell did not have permission to enter her truck when he placed her paperwork in it. If he went into the truck he would have smelled or seen alcohol. He did not. Officer Watanabe would also have found or smelled it. Officer Tingle's report said she had red, glassy, watery eyes. She worked out doors with heavy equipment hauling macnuts with dust that goes into her eyes. She had just gotten through with work. She was also crying because of what happened to her boss's truck. She didn't want to give her boss's phone number because she wanted to be the one to tell him about the accident. While in the processing room, Officer Tingle ordered her to sit, and when she said, "No," he grabbed her thumb, twisted her arm, and forced her into the cell. Her daughter started crying, and Officer Bell came in and took her out of the room. Her daughter should not have been in there to begin with. Officer Tingle started yelling CPS, that he was going to have the truck towed,