The Kaua’i County Police Department is going to the Lihu’e Airport. But officers aren’t fighting to get off the island. They are opening a new office at the airport. The office will be used by vice officers during interdictions of
The Kaua’i County Police Department is going to the Lihu’e Airport.
But officers aren’t fighting to get off the island. They are opening a new office at the airport. The office will be used by vice officers during interdictions of drugs at the airport.
“It’s ongoing. They’ve (vice officers) kept an office space out there at the airport for a long time,” police chief George Freitas said.
Freitas said the new office is also partly in preparation for Kaua’i joining a state drug task force that will be run through federal Drug Enforcement Agency officers in Honolulu.
The DEA agents “are putting together a state task force that will be going from airport to airport screening people coming in. The purpose is to try and locate and seize drugs,” Freitas said.
He said the task force will be filled with officers from all the islands, including Kaua’i.
“We will have one on it,” Freitas said, but declined to name the officer who has been selected.
Freitas said the monthly rent of $365 for the office will be paid for with task force grant monies.
Staff writer Dennis Wilken can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 252) and mailto:dwilken@pulitzer.net
