Honolulu Police Department
| Honolulu Police Department | |
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| Abbreviation | HPD |
Patch of the Honolulu Police Department
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Badge of the Honolulu Police Department
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1932 |
| Employees | 2,574 (2014) |
| Annual budget | $236,265,570 (FY 2016) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | City and County of Honolulu in the state of Hawaii, United States |
| Size | 600 square miles (1,600 km2) |
| Population | 953,207 |
| Governing body | City and County of Honolulu |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Sworn members | 1,973 |
| Unsworn members | 601 |
| Agency executive | Cary Okimoto, Chief of Police (acting) |
| Website | |
| www.joinhonolulupd.org | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, headquartered in the Alapa'i Police Headquarters in Honolulu CDP.
Officially recognized as a part of the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1846, the police department serves the entire island of O'ahu (which is coextensive with the City and County of Honolulu), covering over 600 square miles (1,600 km2) of territory, with just over 900,000 residents (not including military members) and over four million annual visitors. The island is divided into 8 patrol districts which are then subdivided into sectors and beats. HPD currently has more than 2,500 employees, 2,134 of which are full-time sworn officers. A 2003 Department of Justice report listed HPD as the 20th largest police department in the nation.
Unlike the other 49 states, Hawaii does not have a state police agency or individual city agencies; law enforcement is the jurisdiction of the individual county governments. HPD is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies and received the CALEA TRI-ARC Excellence Award from them in 2006.
In 1840, the Supreme Court of Kamehameha III established the first constitution for the Kingdom of Hawaii. The constitution paved the way for the Act to Organize the Executive Departments of the Government signed on April 27, 1846. The law created the office of marshal of the kingdom, the highest ranking police officer in the Hawaiian nation. He nominated, instructed, supervised and controlled the sheriffs of the kingdom of which there were four, one for each administrative region of Kaua'i, O'ahu, Mau'i and Hawaii. Each sheriff administered a corps of constables officially appointed by the four royal governors. Constables wore a distinct police insignia that consisted of a scarlet crown with the initials KIII in honor of Kamehameha III. The insignia was worn on the arm and on a red band on their police hats.
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