2017-01-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2017 with On-Target when they were looking at their range – some rifle ranges – a little bit longer distances versus the standard 25-yard pistol range, and then we’d have the ability to do other type of qualifications with different type of firearms for the officers. TL: What sort of distances are you looking at? LTS: So for a rifle range a decent distance would be about 100 yards. Primarily for police work - a 100 yard range would be a sufficient range for a patrol officer. TL: Weather is an issue – I know for anybody that shoots and one of the issues is weather. Weather on the west side is usually pretty good but on the east side a cover would help. Do you have anything you’d like to add to that as far as your recruit training. LTS: Yes, and primarily why the recruit training is done off-site is the indoor range doesn’t have enough stalls to accommodate a full recruit class. Rather than doing a few here and then having other ones do something else, the firearms is an important aspect of the training so they like to do it as a whole unit. The only range, right now, that can actually facilitate the full recruit size, recruit class is that outdoor range out of the Hilo district. TL: If a range was able to be developed, you know, say ideally on either side of the island - when you talk about participating with the public – is that a conflict when you’re doing your stuff? LTS: I wouldn’t say per se a conflict but it would just be more a schedule where we can coordinate – where we have access where it wouldn’t be interfering with anything that the public had already had scheduled and, since we’ve been scheduling with range anyway, I don’t think it would be anything we’d have a real big challenge with. TL: How many days does it take you to go through your 415 – to do the qualifications? LTS: So the qualifications are set-up by the firearms instructors in the district so it’s not through one central officer location – so each district has a firearms instructors and they’ll have to coordinate with that range if they’re out of the Hilo district to get that done. If they’re in Hilo district, they can use the indoor range, which is much faster because everyone is on-site. It varies – there’s no set time when they do – it just depends on the range availability for the other outer districts. TL: My question is, the police department need a range on a relatively regular basis right? 7