LIHUE (AP) — An ongoing dispute between Hawaii’s police union and the Kauai Police Department over a body camera policy continues to keep officers from using the already purchased devices.
LIHUE (AP) — An ongoing dispute between Hawaii’s police union and the Kauai Police Department over a body camera policy continues to keep officers from using the already purchased devices.
Hawaii News Now reports (https://bit.ly/1NFmdNz ) police Chief Darryl Perry says he had expected officers to begin using the cameras this week. But he says progress has stalled because the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers hasn’t yet signed off on a revised version of the body camera policy.
The union had requested several changes to the policy, and Perry says nearly all those changes have been made in the latest draft.
More than 100 body cameras are being stored at the police department.
Perry says he will start the process of distributing the cameras to officers if the union doesn’t respond soon.