Find HPD Cellblock Releases

Where HPD Cellblock Releases Go

HPD Central Receiving operates the main Alapaʻi cellblock at 801 South Beretania Street. District stations also provide temporary holding. A person may leave police custody after citation, processing, or bail. Someone unable to bail generally goes to court the next working day. If HPD transports the person to OCCC, that movement is admission to Hawaiʻi DCR custody rather than release to the community.

This distinction matters because a person released before OCCC intake may never appear in a DCR search. The durable trail then begins with HPD’s arrest and release information and the court case. If the person entered OCCC, HI SAVIN and DCR records become relevant from that point onward.

How to Confirm an HPD Cellblock Release

Begin with the HPD arrest logs. The current PDF logs are updated daily and cover the latest fourteen days. Search by name, report number, arrest date, offense, and location, then read the disposition code rather than assuming an arrest entry proves continued custody.

1. Search the current HPD log for the arrest episode and note its report number.
2. Use the published disposition legend, including REL, RTO, and other codes, without guessing.
3. Call the custody-information line when the hold is current.
4. Check eCourt Kōkua for bail, release conditions, dismissal, or commitment.
5. Request the historical log or arrest and release fields from HPD after the online PDF rotates out.

REL can provide a useful police-release trace, while RTO means return to another authority. Codes such as charged, released pending investigation, protective custody, and hospital disposition describe different outcomes. Ask HPD for the code definition if the record is unclear. For a broader named-person sequence, use the Honolulu County release search.

HPD Central Receiving Contact

The official Central Receiving page lists 808-723-3000 for custody information and 808-723-3284 for Central Receiving. It also publishes district holding contacts for Kalihi at 808-723-8208, Pearl City at 808-723-8800, Wahiawā at 808-723-8700, Kāneʻohe at 808-723-8640, Kailua at 808-723-8838, Kahuku at 808-723-8650, and Kapolei at 808-723-8525.

A phone call can clarify current routing, but it is not a substitute for a maintained release record. Use the report number, arrest date, full name, and requested dates when writing to Records and Identification.

What an HPD Release Record Can Show

An HPD arrest log is not a DCR inmate record. It follows the police episode and can establish the arrest context and coded disposition. Court and DCR records answer later parts of the custody timeline.

The log does not prove that another agency had no hold. Nor does it serve as a photograph gallery. A precise confirmation asks what the disposition code meant for that event and whether HPD transferred the person to OCCC or another authority.

HPD’s Fourteen-Day Arrest Log Window

HPD policy makes the recent public window unusually clear. Each online log covers fourteen days, is updated daily, and rotates. That schedule is a web access window, not the retention period for the underlying arrest record.

Hawaiʻi’s Uniform Information Practices Act supplies the public-record framework shown below.

When a PDF has rotated out, HPD directs people to send a written request to the Records and Identification Division and state the dates wanted. Its policy does not treat a phone or walk-in demand as the same historical research path. HPD may provide a fee estimate under UIPA.

Adult Release and Bail at Alapaʻi

HPD publishes specific physical instructions for bail release. A person arranging bail at Alapaʻi goes to the Adult Release door at the rear of the station, uses the intercom, and identifies the detained person. HPD estimates about thirty minutes for the bailout process, but that estimate is not a guarantee of release.

Bail may be cash or bond. Cash requires exact change, and cash payments above $10,000 trigger federal Form 8300 reporting. Metered public parking is described behind the station at the bottom of the ramp. These details describe the police release point. They do not determine whether another warrant or hold changes the outcome.

HPD Records After the Log Rotates

Records and Identification can be reached at 808-723-3258. HPD’s police-report information gives 801 South Beretania Street and ordinary hours of Monday through Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., subject to holidays and current notices.

A focused request should name the person, report number, arrest date, cellblock if known, and desired fields. Ask for the disposition, physical release date and time if maintained, destination or receiving agency, and the relevant code definition. A broad demand for an entire file can add review work and expose protected information that is not needed to answer the release question.

HPD Release Versus OCCC Admission

eCourt Kōkua helps connect the two custody systems. A bail or release order may explain why HPD let someone leave. A mittimus or commitment may show why the person went to DCR. The court entry is legal context, not a timestamp from the cellblock door.

If OCCC admission followed, search HI SAVIN for DCR status and request the DCR admission-through-release episode. If HPD released the person before jail intake, keep the request with HPD and the court. This custodian-first approach avoids the false conclusion that a blank DCR result proves no arrest or immediate release.

Detainers During an HPD Release

A police disposition can lead to another agency. RTO should be read as return to another authority, not community release. Federal, immigration, state, or other warrants may redirect the person even when the Honolulu police hold ends.

Follow the destination in the record. Use DCR and HI SAVIN for OCCC, BOP or the federal docket for federal custody, and ICE’s locator for immigration detention. Each system speaks only for its own custody episode.

For a defensible timeline, record the HPD arrest time, coded disposition, transfer or release time if maintained, and the next agency’s admission date. Ask for the report legend rather than translating initials from memory. If the court ordered release but another agency accepted custody, retain both records. One explains why the police case allowed release, while the other explains why the person did not enter the community.

Agency Records Complete the Custody Timeline

A reliable timeline uses the identifier, case number, exact dates, and exact agency wording rather than name alone. Compare the last event held by this custodian with the first event held by the next one. A court order may authorize release without recording the physical exit time, while a locator status may describe only one agency. A transfer, designation, detainer pickup, or processing delay can explain why dates do not align.

When public search results leave a gap, request the maintained movement fields from the agency that controlled that stage. Ask for assumption of custody, facility, transfer or release date and time, disposition, destination, and receiving authority. Court documents come from the court, BOP and ICE records use federal FOIA or Privacy Act channels, and HPD or DCR records use the applicable Hawaiʻi process. Third-party requests may face lawful privacy limits.

For a federal pretrial matter, also compare the detention hearing, bond order, judgment, and later supervision entries. USMS movement may not appear in a standard BOP history before designation. For an HPD episode, retain the report number, arrest time, disposition code, and next working-day court event. These details help distinguish release after processing from transport to OCCC.

Preserve each result with its source and update time. Do not merge a BOP release, ICE result, HPD disposition, and DCR movement into one unqualified status. Matching the end of one custody episode to the beginning of the next distinguishes community release from continued confinement and gives the record holder a precise issue to confirm.