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data or crime statistics . (inaudible) . CUSHNIE: Does that go so far as to require specific ranks of your officers when they fulfill a certain duty or job position? VIERRA: No, those are normally set by the committee of personnel directors , which comprise all four counties and the state. . They more or less determine the rank structure of the Police Department. We choose, however , to fill them or not. For instance, the Honolulu Police Department has the rank of assistant chief; we have none here. We have the rank of inspector ; none of the other departments have that rank. So we. . . it depends on the department itself. But if we decide to create a position, it is our stipulation by union contract with Civil Service rules that they will be called by certain things . CUSHNIE: Are you satisfied with that arrangement? It ' s flexible enough for your needs? VIERRA: Yes , I think so. CUSHNIE: Uh-huh. Along the lines of sensitive information and speaking of in-house investigations , how do you limit the access of the commission. . .Police Commission to sensitive information, both because of investigations in the community and investigations in-house? VIERRA: I haven' t been confronted with the problem, but I know it will be very soon, because I have several major internal investigations coming to a head. And. . .one in particular is the recent Milolii incident involving Kona police officers and Yanos family. The commission is interested in the investigation and I don' t know quite how to approach it. I 'm relying on the advice of the Corpora- tion Counsel. In my opinion, because of the way information in an internal investigation is guarded, whereby police officers are required to submit statements about their duties and what they did (inaudible) , they're fifth amendment rights are violated, but not in the sense of the internal investi- gation (inaudible) criminal act. So we guard those statements in those investigations very carefully and consider them personnel-type information. If the:cominission wanted to inquire as to the status of the investigation, what actually happened, I 'd be hard pressed to provide that information. And I think the police unions would be on my back if I did give that infor- mation out. I think , if the commission wanted the information, they would have to open an investigation 199