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promotions , the civil service competitive-type promotion <br /> where examinations are given for a particular rank and <br /> based on a combination of test score, senority, the; . .certain <br /> ranks in this . . . in the Hawaii County case it would be, <br /> lieutenants and b e• Lo ..w. They would come up on a promotional <br /> list and the chief is required to promote from that list and <br /> submit his recommendation to ivil ervice for approval of <br /> these promotions and Civil Service is responsible to insure <br /> that the list was followed and the proper people were <br /> promoted before others on the list. I have known it to <br /> happen in Honolulu where the list goes down to. . . to the <br /> mayor ' s office for approval. And there' s another type of <br /> promotion called non-competitive. And in the case of Hawaii <br /> County , it ' s captains and above. And the chief essentially <br /> has the authority to promote anybody above the rank of <br /> lieutenant to the next position, based on his personal <br /> knowledge of the individual, his loyalty and any other <br /> assets. . .or facets he wants to consider . <br /> BETHEA: Does this refer to an ordinance or just <br /> policy? <br /> VIERRA: This is civil service policy . Now, my list <br /> still has to go to the mayor for approval. The mayor ' s <br /> office should be looking at the list in terms of <br /> compliance with the EEO policy of the County. I ' ve known it <br /> to happen where people are scratched off the list. I 've <br /> known. . . I ' ll give you a good example. In this whole scheme <br /> of things here on my right, I have two majors . Up until <br /> June of last year , there were no.. . .there was, no major rank <br /> in the department . There are two major ranks now. And that <br /> was because of the mayor wanting majors in the department and <br /> the department essentially being required to fill those <br /> positions . Now I have two majors . What do I do with them? <br /> If one is ineffective, where do I put him? I have to put <br /> him in the other major ' s job or promote him or demote him. <br /> That ' s the only way of . . . it ' s a lousy situation but this <br /> was the result of political interference. It ' s a <br /> (inaudible) . <br /> BETHEA: Well, I 'm wondering. . .you know, the. . . if the <br /> administration prepared budgets , okay , I 'm. . . those budgets <br /> are prepared based on, you know, on presentations as to <br /> what needs are, etcetera. And I don ' t know whether it ' s <br /> done or where, but suppose it were the commission represents <br /> the department ' s budget, some other methodology to. . . to get <br /> that out of there. I don ' t know. I can see the problem is <br /> that, really of all the departments , I would think that at <br /> least you would want the Police Department to be the least <br /> political. Because the biggest thing. . .one of the biggest:. <br /> 210 <br />