2013-04-19 Police Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission ‘ Regular Session Minutes April 19, 2013 Page 2 of March, the department received 7,774 calls for service. Of these 2,213 were for criminal and traffic offenses and 5,561 were for miscellaneous public assistance. They had some burglary trends in the Hilo District in the Waiakea Uka and Pepe’ekeo areas. Those have been addressed by their enforcement and investigative units, resulting in arrests, closures, and referrals to the Prosecutor. Since then, those trends have subsided. In the Puna District, they had a small burglary trend in the Volcano area – about 8 burglaries. They are still working on those investigations. One suspect was arrested on some other offenses, and that trend has subsided. A small number of persons are responsible for the majority of these problems. Kona had increased complaints of liquor and park hour violations in Kailua town. The community policing officers are addressing these complaints along with patrol and plain clothes units. Traffic report by area, category, and trends: Major Mitchell Kanehailua summarized the written report. He stated that for the month of March, 3,871 citations were issued – 2,586 moving/regulatory, 348 seatbelt, 48 child restraint, and 889 for speeding. For traffic trends, there were 35 major traffic accidents. Causes and locations were consistent, and they will continue with traffic enforcement. Personnel report on vacancies, recruitment, training, promotions, reallocations, severance from service, and work assignments: Major Samuel Thomas reported that 20 recruits are going through FTO (Field Officer Training) in various districts. On July 16, they are targeted to go out as solo officers. They also have a partial class of 5 officers, 4 of which were transferred from other police departments from within the State of Hawai‘i, and one was a rehire. They are in an accelerated training program which should be completed at the end of May. They will go through FTO training for about a month. On July 1, they are expected to be assigned to individual districts. By the end of July, they are looking at having an additional 25 officers fully training and out in the community Finance report of budget and expenditures: Major Samuel Thomas summarized the written report. He stated that ending March, their targeted expenditure for salaries and wages was 79.2%. They actually expended 75.7%. The difference is due to vacancies. The targeted expenditure for the month ending February was 66.6%. Discounting grants, they expended and encumbered 67.5%. It should be noted that some contracts are encumbered for the entire year, meaning that some expenses have been paid for the rest of the year. With grants, expenditure was at 60.9% of the overall budget. Commendations of sworn and civilian employees: Chief Kubojiri reported receiving 8 commendations involving 32 personnel since the last commission meeting.