608 People Participate in Big Island Police Department Community Survey

Chief Harry Kubojiri wishes to thank the 608 members of the public who participated in the Hawai’i Police Department’s Community Satisfaction Survey and the news media for helping to attract this record number of participants during the month-long survey in May.

The chief and his staff are in the process of analyzing all the individual comments collected so the Police Department can identify common concerns. The chief will then respond to the most common concerns expressed by the community members and visitors who participated in the survey. The responses to those comments and questions will be posted (along with the questions) on the Police Department’s website.

As in previous surveys, Chief Kubojiri said the survey and follow-up analysis are tools to assist him in

– identifying problem areas the community is experiencing with the Police Department
– determining if he can rectify those issues through specific training of Police Department personnel
– making changes to policies and procedures if necessary
– clarifying misinformation about laws and/or police practices

“Your feedback in past surveys has allowed us to make changes that were beneficial to the Police Department and the public we serve, and we will continue to publish surveys in the future,” Kubojiri said. “Your input is one of the many tools that we use in our continuing efforts to improve how we provide services to the public.”

In addition to processing comments from the survey, the Police Department will continue to hold monthly public meetings around the island to respond to concerns from the public. Chief Kubojiri encourages community members to attend these public meetings or communicate their concerns or comments using the “Feedback” link on the Police Department’s website.

Related articles

• Big Island Police Inviting Public to Participate in Anonymous Community Satisfaction Survey (damontucker.com)

 

Big Island Police Continue to Use “NIXLE” Emergency Notifications to Pat Themselves on Their Backs

We have a police NIXLE notification system on this island that is supposed to be used for emergency notifications.

Unfortunately our Hawaii County Police Department uses it at times to promote themselves and send out notices that I would consider non-emergency related.

Here is a snippet of the most recent emergency Nixle notice I just received:

….the Hawaiʻi Police Department has been awarded accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., (CALEA). Chief Kubojiri was among the police officials who received the coveted award at the CALEA fall conference on November 17 in Jacksonville, Florida…

There was a moral to the boy who called wolf!

Obstruction of Government Operation Charges Dismissed Against Me – Pictures Released From the Night I Got Arrested at Pahoa Village Cafe

The State of Hawaii, through the undersigned deputy prosecuting attorney, and Damon Tucker, through his counsel Gerard Lee Loy, Esq., hereby stipulate to entry of a nolle prosequi without prejudice in this case in the interests of justice.  Any bail or release conditions should properly be cancelled and bail returned to the poster. 

I always knew I would be vindicated when a government official, interested in honesty and integrity in the prosecution process, would review the evidence contained in my video camera and in my iPhone’s motherboard, and would know that certain police fabricated the claim of my misconduct.

I am hopeful that the prosecutor’s review of the police officers’ conduct in fabricating
claims of my misconduct will lead to better training in the police department about honesty and integrity in preparing police reports, and in selecting honest people to become police.

False reporting is a crime. And so is beating up a 150 pound citizen by a 260 plus pound police officer.

I’d like to apologize to my wife for having to go through some of the stress that I have dealt with in dealing with.

I’d also like to apologize to my son for not being able to show up at many school and extra-curricular functions while I’ve had this legal gorilla on my back.

I’d like to thank those folks that have supported me from the get go… you know who you are.

While my body is healing and the wounds are fading… the memories of that fateful night have haunted me nightly since it happened and I hope now I can move past some of the nightmares and visions I’ve been having of getting slammed onto the ground by a huge police officer for no reason at all.

To the three folks that have investigated my name “Damon Shane Tucker” online and anonymously called the prosecutors office reporting that I was the Sex Offender currently incarcerated in Arizona… I am not that person and I would appreciate it if those rumors stopped immediately. That person is incarcerated until 2062.

The "Damon Shane Tucker" that is incarcerated in Arizona

I value my name and I value my employment with the Federal Government and I value my service to our community. I will continue to do my best to serve our community and my country in the capacity that I have been doing.

The “Damon Shane Tucker” that is incarcerated in Arizona

Police Chief Kubojiri Promotes Eight Officers to the Rank of Sergeant/Detective

Media Release:

Chief Harry S. Kubojiri has promoted eight police officers to the rank of sergeant/detective:

• Detective Robert Almeida is assigned to the Area I Criminal Investigations Section. A 22-year veteran of the Hawai’i Police Department, Almeida was most recently a school resource officer in South Hilo.
• Detective Jason Berryhill is assigned to the Area II Criminal Investigations Section. Berryhill, who joined the Police Department nearly 19 years ago, last served as a patrol officer in the South Kohala District.
• Sergeant Paul Bugado is assigned to Kona Patrol. Bugado, who has been with the department for more than 17 years, was most recently a community police officer in the South Kohala District.
• Sergeant Grad Elarionoff, a member of the Police Department for almost 12 years, is assigned to Kona Patrol. His most recent assignment was as a patrol officer in that district. He previously was a Kona vice officer.
• Detective Joel Field is assigned to the Area I Criminal Investigations Section. Field, who has been with the Police Department nearly 20 years, was a patrol officer assigned to the South Hilo District before his promotion.
• Sergeant Robert Pauole, who joined the department more than 11 years ago, is assigned to the Traffic Services Section. His last assignment was as a patrol officer assigned to South Hilo. Before that, he was a Traffic Enforcement Unit officer.
• Detective Brian Prudencio is assigned to the Area II Vice Section’s Ice Task Force. Prudencio, an 11-year veteran of the Police Department, was most recently a patrol officer in South Hilo. Before that, he was a vice officer for six years.
• Detective Grant Todd is assigned to the Area I Criminal Investigations Section. Todd, who was previously a vice officer, has been with the Police Department since the beginning of the decade.

The promotions took effect Wednesday (March 16).

Hawaii County Traffic Accident Reports Still Unable to be Accessed

Media Release:

The Hawai‘i Police Department would like to inform the public that due to technical difficulties resulting from a recent upgrade of the Records Management System, the Records Section has been unable to release copies of traffic accident reports for some time.  The Department is working with the vendor to correct these problems in order to comply with the publics requests for reports.  The Department is asking for the public’s continued patience while working thru these issues and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Should there be any questions, please feel free to contact Major Larry Weber of our Technical Services Division at 961-2262.

Police Community Response Survey Was NOT Anonymous… What a Bunch of Monkeys

In May I blogged about the Hawaii County Police Department conducting a Community Response Survey.

In today’s Hawaii Tribune Herald, it was reported:

Between June 1 and June 30, 374 people took the 38-question community satisfaction survey that was released on Monday. The anonymous Internet-based survey was purchased from surveymonkey.com and provided only the results of the survey to the police department.

Police Chief Harry Kubojiri said he did not remember a satisfaction survey having been conducted by the department recently…

Now I’m highlighting “Anonymous” because once they purchased the survey from “Survey Monkey” they have access to the IP addresses of everyone that responded to that survey.

From those IP addresses, they can tell who responded to what questions and where they are located.

This is scary to think that the police would call a survey anonymous, but then collect IP addresses of the people conducting the survey.

From the Survey Monkey website itself… it even suggests how the Surveys could turn off the IP Data Collection button…

But then why would the Police Department need to pay anything for Survey Monkey when the Data they have released is all available for free using Survey Monkey. By paying for the service… they get the IP Collection.