Report Title:

COMSTAT; Law Enforcement Technology System

Description:

Appropriates funds to: establish COMSTAT, a technology system for more efficient and effective law enforcement as an HPD pilot program, including the acquisition of an electronic fingerprint imaging system; and enable HPD to develop a COMSTAT network statewide. (SD2)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

399

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

S.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the comstat program.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that police departments across the nation are always looking for effective ways to reduce crime, provide effective enforcement of laws, and protect the public.

The legislature further finds that the New York police department has developed a program called COMSTAT, which stands for Computer Statistics. COMSTAT is an information system that collects accurate, timely intelligence; analyzes the data; and formulates a process plan that involves four principles:

(1) Accurate, timely intelligence that is communicated to all;

(2) Rapid deployment that is coordinated and focused;

(3) Effective tactics; and

(4) Relentless follow-up and assessment.

COMSTAT is a successful program that has allowed police departments in New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and other large cities to organize and to change their law enforcement philosophy, resulting in significant decreases in crime in those cities.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to:

(1) Enable the Honolulu police department to establish and implement a COMSTAT pilot law enforcement program to provide more effective law enforcement in the city and county of Honolulu, provided that the pilot program shall be operational in the city and county of Honolulu in fiscal year 2004-2005; and

(2) Enable the Honolulu police department, after the establishment of the initial COMSTAT pilot law enforcement program, to interface computer links with other county police departments in the State to develop a network for a statewide COMSTAT law enforcement program.

SECTION 2. The Honolulu police department shall upgrade its networking system to establish and implement a COMSTAT pilot law enforcement program that shall be operational in the city and county of Honolulu in fiscal year 2004-2005.

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004, as a grant-in-aid to the city and county of Honolulu for the establishment of COMSTAT, an effective technology system for more effective law enforcement in the city and county of Honolulu; provided that of the amount appropriated, $           shall be expended to acquire an electronic fingerprint imaging system, a necessary component of establishing and implementing the COMSTAT pilot law enforcement program in the city and county of Honolulu.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the city and county of Honolulu for the purposes of this section.

SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, as a grant-in-aid to the city and county of Honolulu to enable the Honolulu police department to interface computer links with other county police departments in the State to develop a network for a statewide COMSTAT law enforcement program.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the city and county of Honolulu for the purposes of this section.

SECTION 5. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2054.