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MR. ISHIDA: Right, and the police officer has <br /> no power to issue subpoenas. Only to serve subpoenas.. <br /> MR. ODA: No, but if that is what he wants, <br /> why doesn ' t he say that why can 't we restrict that the role <br /> of the investigator to__serve subpoenas such as any other <br /> police officer. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: I can really appreciate Mr. Ono' s <br /> concern because I have been in the prosecutor' s office some <br /> time and if you have an individual there. . .in Honolulu, what <br /> we had, we had police detectives assigned to the prosecutor' s <br /> office and we also had a couple of positions that were open <br /> to the prosecutor' s office who were equivalent to police <br /> officers and, in fact, were former police officers. To have <br /> them available, at your beck and call , is the most, you know, <br /> for efficient purposes, you can ' t beat it, you have to have <br /> it. If you need it, they are there, at your beck and call. <br /> The Police Department, they are not at your beck and call. <br /> You have to call the chief or the supervisor and say can we <br /> have one mani:to come down here and sometimes you have to work <br /> at split second notice. It is a practical problem, that is <br /> what I think. <br /> If people are concerned as to whether these <br /> investigators may not be qualified as police officers, I would <br /> suggest to qualify them, have them trained so that you have <br /> that consistency. I think that if Mr. Ono doesn 't have that <br /> individual , now, in his office, we should grant him that <br /> authority to have that power. Grant him the privilege of <br /> having an individual assigned to his office, one way or the <br /> other. <br /> MR. ODA: To do what? To issue subpoenas? <br /> MR. ISHIDA: No, not to issue them. To serve <br /> them. <br /> MR. ODA: His proposal, in another section, <br /> says to ISSUE subpoenas ! Now, that is a circuit court <br /> jurisdictional. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: That is the other issue. <br /> MR ODA: Right, right, that is another one. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: I am talking only about the <br /> investigators, now, that is all. <br /> MR. ODA: Okay, but as I see it, Richard, it <br /> seems to me that the present language of what he is proposing <br /> is much, much too broad. In effect, he wants the investigator <br /> to be a police officer. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: That provision is identical to <br /> that in the Honolulu charter, that is why he took it out <br /> that way. <br /> -18- <br />