The Honolulu Police Department HPD is committed to enforcing all state laws, city ordinances, and rules and regulations concerning crimes related to family violence. To respond appropriately to incidents of domestic violence and prevent further harm to affected family and household members;. To conduct thorough investigations to determine if reasonable grounds exist to facilitate the arrest of the dominant aggressor in domestic violence crimes;.
To protect family and household members from subsequent domestic violence through support and education. This will be done through collaboration with community stakeholders and social service providers; and. To promote the safety of our officers by ensuring that they are trained and prepared to respond to and effectively handle domestic violence calls for service. Complainant: The family or household member who has been identified as the victim of domestic violence and not necessarily the caller.
Consanguinity: A kinship characterized by the sharing of common ancestors or being related by blood. Dating relationship: A romantic, courtship, or engagement relationship often, but not necessarily, characterized by actions of an intimate or sexual nature but does not include a casual acquaintanceship or ordinary fraternization between persons in a business or social context.
Dominant aggressor: The person determined to be the principal or most significant, but not necessarily the first, aggressor in a domestic violence altercation. Extreme psychological abuse: An intentional or knowing course of conduct directed at an individual that seriously alarms or disturbs and consistently or continually bothers the individual and that serves no legitimate purpose; provided that such course of conduct would cause a reasonable person to suffer extreme emotional distress.
Family or household member: Spouses or reciprocal beneficiaries, former spouses or former reciprocal beneficiaries, persons in a dating relationship as defined under Section , HRS, persons who have a child in common, parents, children, persons related by consanguinity, persons jointly residing or formerly residing in the same dwelling unit, and persons who have or have had a dating relationship. Does not include those who are, or were, adult roommates or cohabitants only by virtue of an economic or contractual affiliation.
