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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – January 17, 2017 <br />our personnel to maintain our qualifications, continue our practices, and to <br />have something for our scheduling that we actually have control over <br />versus trying to kind of jockey for positions which aren’t always the most <br />beneficial to our scheduling and our manpower needs. <br /> <br />TL: You were looking also to have a range on the east side available to you <br />folks, is that correct? <br /> <br />LTS: And in all honesty the Big Island is a big island. We have – that is our <br />challenge is or personnel from Area 2 and Area 1 – which is east side and <br />the west side - having a facility either side would be a benefit for us. <br />Ideally it would be nice for the county, the public and the police <br />department to have that eventually – to have facilities west and east <br />Hawaii – but at this point we’ll be more than happy with whatever we can <br />take and work with that. <br /> <br />TL: I have roster – how many officers is your total from the police department? <br /> <br />LTS: There’s approximately 450. <br /> <br />TL: You mentioned that each one of them needs to be qualified every year. <br /> <br />LTS: Correct. <br /> <br />TL: OK. When you talk about a range for the police department, what type of <br />facility works for you, you stated that you use a private range on the other <br />side of the island – what does that range actually look like? <br /> <br />LTS: So the range itself is basically a cinder cone or cinder pit – we’re in the <br />center of that and we have to bring each time our materials to set up the <br />targets that are various distances and measure it off. Other organizations <br />also use the facility, so there is some materials there – but most of the <br />time we have to bring all of our own equipment out to the facility – set up <br />targets – measure off distances and then conduct the training as a static <br />range. <br /> <br />TL: Is that going up? <br /> <br />LTS: Yes <br /> <br />TL: Yeah and that’s adequate for you? I mean other than having a facility <br />where you can store stuff and so forth and lights and electricity and <br />whatnot. <br /> <br />LTS: It works for now. Ideally, yes, there are other things we would like to <br />incorporate additionally as we go on that’s something that we have worked <br /> 6 <br /> <br />