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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 20 of 104 <br />HERKES: Number seven. <br />BALOG: Okay, keep going. <br />HERKES: Thank you. Number seven. <br />ROSS: The police has to have at least a high school education and not an eighth grade, as now. <br />HERKES: Number eight. <br />ROSS: Pardon? <br />HERKES: Number eight. Go ahead. <br />ROSS: Okay. State the -. I have to tell you that there is a lot wrong with the police because the police, as <br />it is laid down in Chapter 52(d) of the Revised Statutes was designed, it was the old Police Code was -. <br />HERKES: Recommendation, what’s the recommendation? <br />ROSS: (Indiscernible) I’ll come up with that. <br />HERKES: Please do. <br />ROSS: I have to tell you what the basis is, too. <br />HERKES: No. Okay. <br />ROSS: It was, no. <br />HERKES: Recommendation. <br />ROSS: So that you’re not led astray. Chapter 54(d) was designed and accepted by 50 of our <br />representatives without a word, without criticism. It was designed by the four police chiefs, by the <br />union, the police union, one man, and one special man from the Honolulu Police Department. Now, that <br />is not in the public’s interest. <br />HERKES: And your recommendation is? <br />ROSS: I leave that to you. This is a general -. <br />HERKES: Oh, you don’t have a recommendation on that? <br />ROSS: Remarks that you have to nail -. <br />HERKES: Thank you. <br />ROSS: Down the police. <br />HERKES: Thank you, then I won’t put it down. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 3-17-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />