HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A high-ranking Honolulu police officer warned the department that sober drivers were being arrested for DUI, but the practice continued despite the alert.

On Feb. 26, 2024, then-HPD Maj. Mike Lambert hand-delivered a memo to Assistant Chief Calvin Tong.

The document called for an investigation into cases where officers arrested drivers for operating a vehicle under the influence of intoxicants despite breath alcohol results of 0.00.

Lambert conducted an internal audit, checking all DUI arrests in the prior year where drivers were released and never charged. The audit identified 166 instances with 36 being strictly alcohol-related cases.

Of those alcohol-related cases, 11 involved officers who reported smelling alcohol coming from the vehicle rather than from

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