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s r.a- SI 4, . i • . . I SUPREME COURT OF HAWAII-20 Opinion of thr Court tIt t the responsibility for•police administration. A charter •� amendment should be obtained to assign to the Mayor of ' •. ' 1 Honolulu the authority to appoint the police chief with l • 1 advice and consent of the Council. lit the other counties, power to appoint police chiefs should be assigned to chief I executive officers under the reorganized form of govern- r 1 merit discussed in-the succeeding chapter. 1 .. It is clear to us from the above-quoted legislative report and the publication to which it referred that the power over t police matters was. delegated to the counties. The revised charter provision changing the number of members serving • on the Maui police commission is a matter of executive and r administrative structure and organization and is superior•to conflicting statute.' Similarly, the revised charter section • 8-12.3 which restricts the police commission's power to re- move the chief of police is valid as against conflicting provi- • cions in HRS § 52-34. , . I • - Moreover,we hold that the Maui charter provisions which . j require qualifications for the positions of directors of the t d• epartments of liquor control and water supply are superior `. I to statute. The issue of who shall fill departmental head + positions created by the charter commission is a matter of • executive and administrative structure and organization,see 1 Del Duca v.Town Administrator of Methuen, —Mass. —, • `: .$ 329 N.E.2d 748 (19741, which the State Constitution makes I superior-to statute. It is also apparent that such an appointee iI . also serves at the pleasure of the appointing authority. ! • The-language of HRS §281-17 (Suhp._1975) provides that • the secretary of the liquor comtITission and the other em- • i 1 ployees of that commission shall be meriThers of the civil ser- , i • ' vice and be subject to the compensation law. Since the char- ! i ter provisions gave the liquor control unit of the govc-rntnent a4 t . structure with departmental standing. it is reasonable that i • the director of the department of liquor control he subject to t • 7 Revibtrd charter seetion 13-2.2 requires that"[nlot more than a bare majority of • • tile members of any board or commission shall belong to the same political party." 1 • t • 1