Officers and civilians want to make sure their voices are heard throughout the selection process for a new chief.

Crumbling concrete around the police station’s exterior in Kapolei. Raised and cracked asphalt in the parking lot at the Pearl City station. Wires protruding from light fixtures in the lawn of the department’s Honolulu headquarters.

These are a few examples of the “dirty, run-down, degraded” condition of many Honolulu Police Department facilities, Jonathan Frye, Honolulu chapter chair of the state police union, told Civil Beat this week.

The crumbling state of police buildings has been a recurring theme in the comments of an internal survey released last August , as well as in a recent survey of union members released this month. These infrastructure issues, along with o

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