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SHOPO President Malcolm Lutu wants the new police chief to be “local.” Reading time: 2 minutes.
As the Honolulu Police Commission launches a search for a new chief, the police union is pushing for the hire of someone from within the department – not the mainland.
Malcolm Lutu, president of the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers, made that clear to Honolulu City Council members during a committee meeting on Wednesday.
“I think we need to keep this local,” he said.
SHOPO President Malcolm Lutu and Mayor Rick Blangiardi have both expressed their desire to hire from within. Cory Lum/Civil Beat
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LIHUE, Hawaii The police commission on Kauai has suspended the police chief without pay for five days for making discriminatory comments after an investigation found he mocked people of Asian descent.
The Kauai Police Department said in a statement Friday that Chief Todd Raybuck will be suspended from April 26 to 30 for violating county policy. He will also be required to complete Equal Employment Opportunity anti-discrimination training and cultural sensitivity training.
The police department said a Kauai Department of Human Resources investigation concluded there was no evidence to support the allegation that Raybuck failed to promote an employee based upon the person s ancestry, race or national origin.
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Kauai Police Chief Todd Raybuck will serve a five day suspension after the police commission and Human Resources Department found he made racist remarks against Asian people, reports Hawaii News Now.
The commission also ordered him to undergo sensitivity training.
Last month in a video posted on YouTube, he apologized for the comments he made both last year and in 2019.
Civil Beat reports the controversy surfaced after an officer recorded the chief mocking Asian people by squinting his eyes and mocking someone with a Japanese accent.
In another incident, he described an Asian person as someone with a hairstyle out of a kung fu movie.