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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 ]
In general, state police officers or highway patrol officers, known as state troopers, perform functions that do not fall within the jurisdiction of a county’s sheriff (Vermont being a notable exception), such as enforcing traffic laws on state highways and interstates, overseeing security of state capitol complexes, protecting governors ...
The Honolulu Police Department is one of the four police departments in the state of Hawaii, being Hawaii County Police on "the big island," Kauai Police Department, and Maui Police Department. Officers are permitted to purchase a vehicle for police patrol and for personal usage of any make and model, however it must be approved by the chief ...
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The county’s decision to install a breakwater on a beachfront parcel in Highland Beach has become a $600,000 mistake. Illegal breakwater installation in Highland Beach to cost PBC taxpayers more ...
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 ...
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.
Hawaii is one of six states in the United States that operates its jails at the state level. In most states jails are the responsibility of county and county-equivalent governments. The Hawaii Department of Public Safety is responsible for four jails: one on each of the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui and Kauai. [6]