Kaua‘i’s police chief elect will be sworn in at 3:30 p.m. Monday at the Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall. Darryl Perry, a 33-year police veteran, will serve as the county’s seventh chief of police, filling a position that has been
Kaua‘i’s police chief elect will be sworn in at 3:30 p.m. Monday at the Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall.
Darryl Perry, a 33-year police veteran, will serve as the county’s seventh chief of police, filling a position that has been vacant since June 2006.
Perry, who was selected last month from a pool of 66 candidates, will lead a department of 125 officers as well as a civilian staff.
Perry started his career with the Kaua‘i Police Department and then transferred to the Honolulu Police Department, where he served as commander of the Juvenile Services, Narcotics/Vice and the Criminal Investigations divisions.
Following his 2002 retirement from the force, Perry worked as chief of security for First Hawaiian Bank on O‘ahu, investigator with the state Attorney General’s office and as an adjunct professor at Honolulu Community College in the Justice of Administration Program.
Perry holds associate degrees from Kaua‘i Community College and Honolulu Community College as well as a bachelor’s degree in justice administration from Hawai‘i Pacific University. Perry has a master’s in organizational management from the University of Phoenix.
