2010-06-18 Police Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission June 18, 2010 Page 3 work should be done equally. The different shifts do make a difference. More roadblocks are done during certain seasons. • Personnel: Assistant Chief Kanehailua reported having 12 sworn vacancies. They have 16 civilian vacancies, 5 of which have been defunded. • Finance: Assistant Chief Kanehailua reported that there was no change to the budget they submitted. They can move monies around within the category. They do not have a slush fund. Some of the cuts the County Council wanted would have devastated their programs. • Commendations: Chief Kubojiri reported receiving 13 commendations since the last meeting. • Other Departmental Activities: Chief Kubojiri reported that through a Hawaii Tourism Authority grant, they received cameras for monitoring Downtown Hilo, Akaka Falls, Pahoa, and Kailua -Kona. Civil Defense will also be able to use the cameras. Their budget hearing before the County Council was long and could have been shorten if the council members had asked questions ahead of time. Last year their budget was cut by 5 %. This year they cut it by 10 %. They were asked to cut next year's budget by 20 %. Furloughs will start in July. They again started the backpack drive for needy children, and it was announced in the newspaper. Last year's drive was successful. People read about it on the internet, and they received boxes of backpacks from the mainland. Commissioner Ignacio stated that they will fill the backpacks with food. Chief Kubojiri stated that problems with the Kona police station's telephone system are ongoing. Years ago they went with a contractor who charged a substantially lower amount, and they have had problems with the equipment and the system. Corporation Counsel is trying to get out of that system. NEW BUSINESS • Police Commission's revised 2010 meeting schedule due to county furloughs. Ms. Pelayo is to be notified of any conflicts. • County Council's formation of an ad hoc committee to establish a grievance procedure regarding the lowest law enforcement priority of cannabis ordinance. Deferred to executive session. Recess was called at 10:10 a.m. The meeting reconvened at 10:35 a.m. INVESTIGATION AND DELIBERATION OF COMPLAINTS STATEMENTS ON COMPLAINTS OFFICER GABRIEL WILSON (Complaint HPC 10 -11) stated that from what he remembers, Unit I was going south on Kanoelehua on Pana`ewa. Unit I didn't stop at the stop sign and hit Unit 2 and Unit 2 hit Unit 3. He just directed traffic and took