2010-08-19 Police Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Regular Session Minutes August 19, 2010 Page 2 • Honolulu Police Commission Minutes of June 16, 2010 Commissioner Victorine moved to accept the communications. Commissioner Sumja seconded, and it carried unanimously. COMMITTEE REPORTS • Budget and Finance (Mende): Chair Whittemore assigned Commissioner Ono to the committee along with Vice Chair Mende. • Office Management (Whittemore): No report. Rules and Policies ( Sumja): Chair Whittemore assigned Commissioner Victorine to the committee along with Commissioner Sumja. • Public Relations (Ignacio): Chair Whittemore assigned Commissioner Pe'a- Ferrari to the committee along with Commissioner Ignacio. CHIEF'S REPORT Including: • Crime: AC Tavares summarized the written report. They recently installed strategically placed cameras in downtown Hilo and Kailua -Kona. Feed goes to the main station. All are not yet fully optimized. They are already looking at a suspect in an unauthorized entry of motor vehicle case. Tapes are stored for approximately two weeks and then re- recorded. Commissioner Ono felt that a two -week storage period may be too short. AC Tavares stated that the recording time is variable because it kicks in with motion. Traffic: AC Pacheco summarized the written report. Traffic accidents and fatalities are down. DUI arrests are up. Commissioner Sumja asked if the department is doing anything about habitual offenders. Corporation Counsel Ashida stated that a sentence is not going to stop a person from getting a car. With prison overcrowding, there is a triage for releasing offenders, i.e., non - violent offenders do get released. Personnel: AC Kanehailua reported having 20 civilian and 15 sworn vacancies. They are asking to fill every civilian vacancy, but it has to be approved by the Expenditure Review Committee. Sworn vacancies are not being cut. They have applied for funds from the COPS stimulus package. He invited the commissioners to review the CALEA program. They have three years to complete accreditation. CALEA has national standards that must be followed. • Finance: AC Kanehailua summarized the written report. Last year commanders did a great job in keeping expenditures under 100 %.