Honolulu Police Lose 100,000 Reports

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Now here’s a sticky problem: HPD computers appear to have eaten thousands of police records.

honolulu-politics:

The Honolulu Police Department’s computerized records system appears to be missing about 100,000 police reports that should have been entered over the last nine years.

Hawaii News Now made that startling revelation last night.

It could take months or even up to a year to research each officer’s list of missing reports and then try to find the reports elsewhere in the system or have the officers recreate reports using basic police dispatch information like the time, location and a description of each complaint received by 911 call takers.

Read and watch the full story: HPD investigates thousands of missing police reports

(Photo from Hawaii News Now)

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