STAND. COM. REP. NO.888

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 399

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 399, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMSTAT PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate general funds over the next two fiscal years to the City and County of Honolulu for a Computer Statistics (COMSTAT) law enforcement program.

Specifically, this measure requires the Honolulu Police Department to establish and implement a COMSTAT law enforcement program in the first year and then to interface computer links with other county police departments in the State for the development of a statewide COMSTAT law enforcement program in the second year.

Your Committee finds that COMSTAT is an information system that collects accurate, timely intelligence, analyzes the data, and formulates a process plan. COMSTAT is a successful law enforcement program in several large cities on the mainland. Crime statistics have fallen dramatically and the residents are more confident in the ability of law enforcement to carry out its vital responsibilities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date from January 1, 2004 to January 1, 2054, for the purposes of continued discussion of the matter.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 399, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 399, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair