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WAILUKU, Hawaii The Maui Police Department properly handled an accident involving its chief backing his truck into a parked motorcycle at a shopping center, an independent investigation concluded.
The Maui Police Commission asked their counterparts in Honolulu to investigate whether then-Chief Tivoli Faaumu should face any charges for leaving the scene of last year s accident and whether there was any misconduct.
The investigation found the department properly classified the accident at Queen Kaahumanu Center as a civil matter and followed police policies, The Maui News reported Tuesday.
Members of the Maui Police Commission are scheduled to review the report at a meeting Wednesday and discuss it with the investigator, Honolulu Police Commission Executive Director James Yuen.
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Hawaii Police Shootings Review Board Has At Least A Dozen Cases
But that’s fewer than half the number of police killings or in-custody deaths in the state since the board was created in 2017. Reading time: 8 minutes.
Hawaii law enforcement agencies have sent at least 12 cases to a board tasked with reviewing police killings in the state, a Civil Beat survey of the agencies shows.
Ten of those are from the Honolulu Police Department, one is from the state Department of Public Safety while at least one more came from Big Island police.