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East Hawai‘i residents are invited to attend three Coffee With a Cop events next week  in Pāpa‘aloa, Hilo, and Volcano, and get to know their district police officers. These popular events are intentionally informal with no agenda. Topics of conversation...

During the week of November 4, through November 10, 2024, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 18 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Eight of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident. One of the drivers was under...

Hawai‘i Island police arrested and charged a 21-year-old Kona man with several offenses following a string of assaults in the Kalaoa area of Kona just after 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening, November 7, 2024. At 7:15 p.m. on November 7, Kona...

Detectives with Hawaiʻi Police Department’s Area II Criminal Investigation Section arrested and charged 49-year-old Bradford Borum of Ocean View with an array of offenses, including terroristic threatening and criminal property damage following a shooting incident in the Kaʻū district on...

Police have identified the two individuals killed in a two-vehicle collision early Saturday morning, November 9, 2024, in Volcano as 48-year-old Joanna Graves and 54-year-old David Makizuru, both of Volcano. Responding to a traffic collision on Highway 11 near the...

Hawai‘i Island police have arrested and charged 42-year-old George-David Summers, of Waimea, with numerous drug and firearms offenses stemming from a traffic-stop that occurred early Friday morning, November 8, 2024, in the Puna district.  On November 8, Community Policing Officers...

Hawai‘i Island police have arrested and charged a Kona couple with multiple offenses following a double stabbing that occurred during an affray involving multiple people outside a drinking establishment in Kona on Saturday evening, November 9, 2024. Two people were...

Hawai‘i Island police are investigating a possible drowning involving a 29-year-old woman that occurred in Kealakekua Bay on Sunday morning, November 10, 2024. Responding to the reported possible drowning at 10:24 a.m. on Sunday, Kona patrol officers learned that an...

The Hawai‘i Police Department is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, it launched its newly redesigned website at www.hawaiipolice.gov. A year in the making, this is the first time the website has been updated since 2011. Members...