NCJ Number
75971
Date Published
Unknown
Length
40 pages
Annotation
The Hawaii County Police Department's activities during calendar year 1979 are reported.
Abstract
Individual sections focus on the Traffic Enforcement Unit, activities against organized crime, homicide, anti-marijuana efforts, the new crime lab, and a special crime reduction unit in the village of Kailua-Kona. Data tables provide information on reported crimes and clearances, charges and dispositions, crimes by districts, juvenile arrests, traffic enforcement, police strength, and financial expenditures. In summary, an average of 14.26 Part I crimes were committed cleared per day. Although the incidence of Part I crimes rose 4.4 percent, the yearly clearance rate increased by 15.1 percent. All crimes, major and minor, were committed at a rate of 25.34 per day, with 10.8 cleared per day. During the year, $1,567,475 worth of property was stolen, and more than one-third was recovered. At the end of the year, the department had an authorized strength of 264 sworn officers and an actual strength of 224. The ratio of policemen to residents was 1 to 374, and the ratio for officers to area patrolled was 1 for each 17.9 square miles of land. Comparison data for previous years and photographs are included.