2006-12-15 Police Commission Minutes

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Hawaii County Police Commission Regular Session Minutes December 15, 2006 Page 4 • Selection of Chair and Vice Chair for 2007. Commissioner Kaoiwi moved and Commissioner Politano seconded that Chair Lassiter remain as Chair and Vice Chair Morimoto remain as Vice Chair. The motion carried unanimously. 10:30 P.M.: INVESTIGATION AND DELIBERATION OF COMPLAINTS STATEMENTS ON COMPLAINTS (open to the public) MRS. NANCINE LLOYD (Complaint HPC 06 -14) stated that this incident involved several officers. The TRO did not work. The TRO did not get to Kohala until the next week. When an officer came, she asked the officer to serve her son the TRO. The officer told her that Officer Bartsch told him he was not supposed to serve the TRO. The police up in Kohala "just let it go." Everyone is related to each other. She's not, so she feels she is being picked on. She arrived at home, and within 10 minutes officers showed up and serve them a TRO that they had to leave their home. The TRO read that she was the one that should have left the property if she felt uncomfortable, not her husband. The officer told him to leave or else he would be arrested. On the night she got licking, Officer Sakata was really rude. All the policemen in Kohala need to read their rules and regulations. When she asked Major Dawrs about the TRO, he told her she had to understand that it was just a paper. Her TRO was found in Ka'u. Upon questioning by Commissioner Politano Steckel, Mr. Lloyd stated that her complaint is about rudeness by one police officer and the manner in which the TRO was served. OFFICER SAKATA (Complaint HPC 06 -41) stated that they responded to the Lloyd's residence and tried to sort things out. It was between mother, son, his wife, and granddaughter. The mother was videotaping the incident. The son was arrested for family violence. He had hardly any contact with Mrs. Lloyd and does not remember being rude to her. She was already in distress. It was not his intent to be rude, and he was sorry she felt that way. They were there for a domestic disturbance. She did not mention anything about a TRO. Chair Lassiter pointed out that while Mrs. Lloyd was in the room, she did not seem to know who Officer Sakata was. Officer Sakata stated that he would go outside and apologize to her. Commissioner Frazier stated that there were two officers there, and Officer Stevens was the lead officer. EXECUTIVE SESSION (closed to the public) Commissioner Frazier moved and Vice Chair Morimoto seconded to meet in executive session to consider discipline and charges against officers or employees of the Hawaii County Police Department and to conduct an annual evaluation of Police Chief Mahuna where consideration of matters affecting privacy will be involved and a closed session is requested and to consult with Corporation Counsel on questions and issues pertaining to the commission's powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and liabilities pursuant to HRS 92 -5 (2) and Hawaii County Charter Section 13 -20 (b). The motion carried unanimously. Executive session convened at 10:45 a.m.