2012-08-24 Police Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Regular Session Minutes August 24, 2012 Page 4 school system. They want an even tighter selection process, and they are now looking at adjusting the standards. • Finance report of budget and expenditures. AC Kanehailua stated that for salaries and wages they are above where they are supposed to be at due to a payroll lag. This should even out as the year goes by. Regarding CALEA, AC Kanehailua reported that their assessment went well. They need to tighten up some issues before the November conference. The mock assessors and these last assessors looked at different things. They got a different perspective from different departments. The two assessors came from police departments of less than 70. One assessor came from a 10 square mile department. HPD has over 500 sworn and civilian employees and 4,000 square miles. Their CALEA Accreditation Team of Lieutenant Bugado, Sergeant Amon - Wilkens, Sergeant Reggie Saludares, Officer Chris Correa, and two clerks did an outstanding job and were commended by the assessors who have done 60+ assessments. They said HPD probably has the best CALEA Accreditation team they have seen. A lot of things they have to work on deal with training according to national standards. The assessors will put together a report to the CALEA Commission. The Chief and his staff will attend a conference in Jacksonville, Florida, on November 14 -16, and the decision on whether or not they get accredited will be done at the conference. Chief Kubojiri gave kudos to their CALEA staff, the commanders, and the entire department, both sworn and civilian. They all took the CALEA process to heart. The interaction they had with the assessors was positive. It was not any one individual that made this process work, but they had to get the buy -in from all employees. They took it to heart, and they are all better for it as a department. He is very proud of them. Chair Ono stated that he attended the CALEA public hearing in Hilo. The assessors were appreciative of the police commission's participation. The majority of the statements to the committee were complaints regarding medical marijuana rather than discussion about the police department. He got a good response from the assessor who got an appreciation of the size of the island. Chief Kubojiri expressed his appreciation for the commission's participation in the public hearing, which he believes had a huge impact. The assessors pointed out some things for improvement which they have rectified. They wanted equal opportunity for employment. They explained that the County's Department of Human Resources is the one who handles this, but they wanted the police department to have a policy in place to ensure that minorities are hired. They wanted signage in English and the most predominant minority language. They fared pretty well on their exit interview. They shared where they could improve and what their strong points were. They will be giving a positive recommendation to the