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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 ...
Based on federal tax records, roughly 10 percent of SHOPO's spending is on advertising. 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 ...
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]
Hawaii Department of Law Enforcement, the State of Hawaii's law enforcement agency Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Hawaii police .
State of Hawaii Department of the Attorney General; Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Hawaii Department of Law Enforcement; Hawaii Department of Public Safety; Hawaii Division of Conservation and Resource Enforcement; Hawaii Harbor Police; Hawaii Prosecuting Attorney Office, Criminal Investigations Unit
Little is known about law enforcement at commercial ports in Hawaii prior to 1967. Law enforcement authority, and the authorization to appoint police officers was granted to the Director of Transportation on May 15, 1967, but has switched from state agency to agency until explicitly re-delegated to the Department of Transportation in 1996.
Hawaii is the southernmost U.S. state and the second westernmost after Alaska. Like Alaska, Hawaii borders no other U.S. state. It is the only U.S. state not in North America, and the only one completely surrounded by water and entirely an archipelago. In addition to the eight main islands, the state has many smaller islands and islets.