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This is a list of law enforcement agencies located in Hawaii.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 7 law enforcement agencies employing 3,234 sworn police officers, about 251 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
The Hawaii Department of Law Enforcement (DLE) is a department within the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Hawaii.The department, which commenced operations on January 1, 2024, was created to merge several previously separate law enforcement functions among the Department of the Attorney General, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety into a single ...
Between 2014 and 2018, SHOPO spent more than $1,000,000 on promotion of police officers and the union. [11] In March 2021, SHOPO began a media campaign involving television commercials intended to promote police officers in Hawaii and rebut criticisms of the police. [11]
The state also removed its prisoners from CCA's Red Rock Correctional Center in Arizona in 2014. [16] About 1,900 male Hawaii state inmates are held at CCA's Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona. This represents the majority of Hawaii's male inmate population. [17] [18] [19]
A county in Hawaii has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused the police chief of discriminating against a captain for being Japanese American, including one instance when the ...
The Hawai'i County Police Department provides police services for the island of Hawai'i, known locally as the "Big Island". According to the 2010 Census , it covers 4,028.02 square miles (10,433 km 2 ) of varied terrain with 185,079 residents and thousands of visitors.
Jan. 2—An attempted-murder suspect was killed in a shootout with Honolulu police officers, two of whom were shot, ending an hours-long, islandwide manhunt and chase on New Year's Day. An ...
A 2003 Department of Justice report listed HPD as the 20th largest police department in the nation. [4] Unlike the other 49 states, Hawaii does not have a state police agency per se or individual city agencies; law enforcement is the jurisdiction of the individual county governments.