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Police chief to add internal affairs unit, information officer
by Michael Levine - the garden island
Police Chief Darryl Perry has made sweeping changes since taking over the Kaua‘i Police Department in October, and some of his visions will be implemented in the coming months.
Perry said Thursday that the KPD will be adding a community communications specialist and an internal affairs unit.
“The PIO (Public Information Officer) position has been approved in our budget for the next fiscal year,” Perry said.
Asst. Chief Gordon Isoda confirmed that the position was authorized for July 1, and that recruiting will begin at that time.
In addition to serving as a spokesperson for the department, the new position will be opening dialogue with community leaders to coordinate joint efforts, Perry said.
Furthermore, the KPD will soon be adding a “pseudo-internal affairs” unit built, at least in part, from the existing Criminal Investigations Bureau.
Perry said that his “wish list” for the department would include a captain to oversee internal affairs and criminal intelligence, a lieutenant and three detectives.
The unit would handle administrative review, facility inspections and criminal investigations of KPD personnel, specifically ensuring that KPD policy and procedures are followed.
According to Perry, the new unit will likely require “really specific training.”
For that reason, the Internal Affairs commander from the Honolulu Police Department will assist Perry’s staff in putting the division together.
“We’re way behind the ball concerning internal affairs,” Perry said. “We should have had this years and years ago.”
Perry said Thursday that the KPD will be adding a community communications specialist and an internal affairs unit.
“The PIO (Public Information Officer) position has been approved in our budget for the next fiscal year,” Perry said.
Asst. Chief Gordon Isoda confirmed that the position was authorized for July 1, and that recruiting will begin at that time.
In addition to serving as a spokesperson for the department, the new position will be opening dialogue with community leaders to coordinate joint efforts, Perry said.
Furthermore, the KPD will soon be adding a “pseudo-internal affairs” unit built, at least in part, from the existing Criminal Investigations Bureau.
Perry said that his “wish list” for the department would include a captain to oversee internal affairs and criminal intelligence, a lieutenant and three detectives.
The unit would handle administrative review, facility inspections and criminal investigations of KPD personnel, specifically ensuring that KPD policy and procedures are followed.
According to Perry, the new unit will likely require “really specific training.”
For that reason, the Internal Affairs commander from the Honolulu Police Department will assist Perry’s staff in putting the division together.
“We’re way behind the ball concerning internal affairs,” Perry said. “We should have had this years and years ago.”
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Ronald Pray wrote on Oct 17, 2009 5:14 AM:
I am a former U.S. Coast Guard Search and rescue team member at Barbers Point. I never read the scathing November 28 article about a rescue I did in 1977 while on leave.
In November of 1977 I had visited Kauai on leave and hiked the Na Pali coast to go camping. On the trail I saw some hikers in front of me ignore the cries of a man saying he was poisoned by mushrooms he had eaten. I know that there are many poisonous varieties from the orange mushrooms to the copelandia varieties which are deadly. I stopped and he was vomitting and telling me that he was dying. I laid my sleeping bag down onto the ground and made him comfortable then lit my coleman stove and cooked him soup to eat. He ate the soup and continued vomitting. He said that he needed immediate attention. I ecouraged him to vommit everything out of his stomache.
I asked him if he would be OK while I ran back to Haena for help and he said please do that.
I ran from his location sometimes skipping the zig-zags in the trails steep inclines jumping straight down to the trail below. I had injured my Achilles tendon by twisting my ankle which put me on light duty upon returning to Barbers Point.
I then knocked on the first door I found and asked them to contact the U.S. Coast Guard that there was a man stranded on the trail who needed immediate attention.
The Fire Department went in on the trail and found the man walking out on his own. This is why the writer in 1977 claimed that I had misread the situation and that is why he called my rescue "The Rescue that wasn't". I believe that had that man died, his death would have been on my ticket and given that rescuing folks was my business I had a responsibility to perform.
We may never know what part my inducing vomiting played in the recovery of this man. I'd like to believe that it played a major role in his quick recovery.
I am proud that I stood for the highest traditions of the U.S. Coast Guard on that fateful day on the Na Pali Coast.To this day, I have a lump in my Achilles Tendon which hurts on certain days to remind me of that day I ran into that man.
Malama Pono,
Former 3rd Class Petty Officer Ronald Pray "