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NEWS > 02 April 2007

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Honolulu Police Department, HI

Policing the Police

The Honolulu Police Department - led by Chief Boisse Correa - is running a media blitz trying to bamboozle the Honolulu City Council and administration into funding another unwarranted unit within his department.

This time, Chief Correa wants a 7-member unit to combat "wrongdoing" within the ranks of lieutenants and below. Oddly the unit will not investigate members of his administration - Captains and above.

The chief says this unit will “identify and correct any kind of procedural or system failures.”

While it is clear that in recent years HPD has been more than embarrassed by officers (both rank-and-file and administrators) going astray and turning to the "dark side," the Honolulu Police Department does not need any additional self policing unit. It already has an Internal Affiairs Unit.

What it does need is an Internal Affairs Unit “void” of any internal (department) interference. A unit that will conduct all investigations in a fair and unbiased manner, that will be independent of any command influence by the police administration, and that will report instead to a Citizens Review Board or an external independent agency.

The facts are:

Statistically more police administrators (Captains and above) fall into these system failures than do rank-and-file officers (Lieutenants and below).

Captains and above make deals to avoid jail time, keep their retirement benefits, etc., while rank-and-file officers get no such offers or deals, and instead just straight jail-time.

On March 5, 2007 in an arbitration decision SHOPO vs HPD and County of Honolulu these system failures were once again identified.

This decision showed that Police Administrators with the blessing of some city officials routinely disregard ignore, violate and simply set aside Collective Bargaining Agreements, Department Policies, Department Rules and Regulations, Employee Rights, both statutory and contractual in an effort to "punish" those they believe are "enemies" of the current police administration.

Unfortunately, the bosses don’t pay for the bad example they set for the lower ranking members of the department.

Then the prevailing mindset erodes into “If it’s good for the bosses, then it must be good for the employees.”

No, the HPD doesn't need another unit that can be used against the police to keep them from being whistleblowers or to target officers who speak out or question the administration.

The taxpayers and police will be better served if the officers in the Internal Affairs Division and the Correa administration act with integrity, honesty and fairness.

 

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