STAND. COM. REP. NO.293

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1048

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1048 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO POLICE DEPARTMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the exercise of the powers of the county police departments to extend beyond the boundaries of their respective counties.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Honolulu Police Department.

This measure is intended to assist all county police departments by allowing them to form multiagency task forces to combat criminal organizations, which operate throughout the State. This measure would also serve to allow a county police department to assist another county police department in such things as emergency situations such as hostage taking, civil disturbances, or explosives remediation. Current law would require the assisted county to deputize the assisting county's officer, which is a barrier to an integrated and coordinated police network serving the entire State.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1048 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations,

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair