pick the next chief <\/a>during their regularly scheduled meeting May 20.<\/p>\nOn Tuesday, 36 community stakeholders selected by the police commission formed four panels and interviewed the applicants The panelists spent the day interviewing the six semi-finalists in a non-public setting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was eight hours of intensive discussions. These panelists did not only the full day but they prepared, and these are our community leaders,\u201d Foster said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t make the decision,we made the decision but their input was very important to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foster said all six of the semi-finalists were \u201cexcellent policing leaders\u201d and the commission is grateful for their participation and commitment.<\/p>\n
State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers President Don Faumuina told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in a statement that with over \u201c460 vacancies and over 260 additional officers eligible to retire today, the stakes of the Police Commission\u2019s decision could not be higher.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSHOPO is thoroughly scrutinizing the finalists to assess which candidate has the skills to immediately address our officer retention crisis, a proven history as an advocate for the department and the officers they lead, a proven ability to create an environment of trust and fairness, and a history of leading by example,\u201d he said. \u201cThese have been the priorities of SHOPO members, expressed in our member survey and in the Commission\u2019s survey of HPD personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faumuina thanked commissioners for engaging the union throughout the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remain hopeful that their ultimate decision is a chief who has the experience and proven track record that meets the attributes expressed as a priority by those who will be working closest with the next chief of police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
After the commission announced the three finalists, Blangiardi said in a statement that the job is \u201cone of the most important leadership positions in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe men and women of the Honolulu Police Department, and the people of Oahu, deserve a chief with integrity, strong leadership, sound judgment, and a deep commitment to public safety and community trust,\u201d said Blangiardi. \u201cI look forward to meeting with each of the finalists in the coming days and learning more about their vision for the department and for the future of policing in Honolulu.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blangiardi also thanked all of the candidates who participated and expressed a willingness to \u201cserve our community in this critical role.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blangiardi has said the mayor, not the commission, should control hiring and firing the chief and that the county\u2019s top executive can\u2019t be responsible for public safety without the authority to manage HPD\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n
A report from a permitted interaction group (PIG) of six of the Honolulu Charter Commission\u2019s 13 members made that recommendation<\/a> in its April report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Honolulu Police Commission today selected three experienced law enforcement leaders \u2014 from New Jersey, San Francisco and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[128150,13,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-303923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-crime-in-hawaii","tag-politics","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}