Hawaii Police Department
County agency in Hawaii County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 210,328 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Hawaii County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2021.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- HI0010000
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
For offenses punishable by no more than two years, the police chief or someone the chief names may set bail and release the person without a judge. For more serious charges, a judge decides, and for the most serious only a judge of a court of record can.
HRS 804-5HRS 804-9- Time to see a judge
Within 48 hours of an arrest, police must either release the person or charge them and take them before a judge.
HRS 803-9(5)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.