Honolulu Police Chief
Susan Ballard has named HPD captains John McCarthy and Jonathon Grems as her two deputy chiefs.
McCarthy is executive officer for District 6, the Waikiki district, and a 41-year HPD veteran. Grems is the executive officer of HPD’s Human Resources Division, and has been with the department for 24 years.
The two will start their new jobs in early December, HPD officials said.
As deputy chiefs,
McCarthy and Grems will
be Ballard’s two second-in-commands. They are followed in rank by six assistant chiefs who are selected through the civil service process.
Ballard was named Honolulu’s 11th — and first female — chief on Oct. 25 by the Honolulu Police Commission, which selected her from a field of seven finalists. She was sworn-in
Nov. 1.
Ballard replaced recently indicted Louis Kealoha, who retired at the end of February after reaching an agreement with the commission. The commission agreed to pay him $250,000, which he must return if convicted of a felony.
Federal prosecutors allege Kealoha and his wife, Honolulu Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, conspired with four members of HPD’s Criminal Intelligence Unit to frame Gerard Puana, Katherine’s uncle, for the alleged theft of the mailbox in front of the Kealohas’ then-Kahala home in 2013.
The Kealohas are additionally accused of defrauding individuals and financial institutions of more than
$1 million by, among other things, fabricating documents, misrepresenting facts, forging signatures, using aliases and stealing a
police officer’s identity.
