Editing Hawaii (section)

===Law enforcement===
Hawaii has a statewide sheriff department under its [[Hawaii Department of Public Safety|Department of Public Safety]] that provides law enforcement protection to government buildings and [[Daniel K. Inouye International Airport]] as well as correction services to all correctional facilities owned by the state.

Counties have their own respective police departments with their own jurisdictions:

*[[Kauai County Police Department]] for the island of Kauai
*[[Honolulu Police Department]] for Oahu
*[[Maui County Police Department]] for Molokai, Maui and Lanai
*[[Hawaii County Police Department]] for the Big Island

Forensic services for all agencies in the state are provided by the [[Honolulu Police Department]].<ref name="Kidd2012">{{cite book|author=R Spencer Kidd|title=UNIFORMS OF THE U.S. STATE POLICE & HIGHWAY PATROLS|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TLDoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33|date=November 23, 2012|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-4717-7729-5|pages=33–|access-date=April 30, 2020|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921094016/https://books.google.com/books?id=TLDoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2022, state officials proposed legislation that would split the sheriff department from the Department of Public Safety and consolidate it with the criminal investigation division from the [[State of Hawaii Department of the Attorney General|Department of the Attorney General]] to create a new Department of Law Enforcement that would create a statewide police agency with the ability to investigate crimes.<ref>{{cite web|date=January 8, 2022|title=Hawaii Proposes Statewide Law Enforcement Agency|url=https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/01/hawaii-proposes-statewide-law-enforcement-agency/|access-date=2022-02-06|website=Honolulu Civil Beat}}</ref>