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  MEDIA RELEASE The Police Department has received a $25,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to enhance and expand the department’s Bicycle Patrol. The money will provide training for Bicycle Patrol officers in the areas of cultural awareness, crisis intervention, homelessness and mental illness. It also will fund bicycle safety training and the […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Officers from the Hawai’i Police Department began making bicycle patrols in Hilo at the beginning of April. Bike patrols will be added shortly in Kona and Puna. Since the bike patrols began, police have already seen positive results in the areas of liquor enforcement, drug enforcement and community satisfaction, said Lieutenant Jason Cortez, […]

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