New Police Chief Wants To Import Successful Las Vegas Programs To Maui … John Pelletier wants to use community policing programs and revamping oversight of use-of-force incidents to improve relations in Maui.
Maui has always been a special place for John Pelletier, a captain in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
It’s where his birth mother lived for a time. And it’s where he proposed to his wife. In a recent interview, Pelletier recounted driving down South Kihei Road in 2004 and telling his wife that he wanted to end up 0n the Valley Isle.
“She’s always sort of known what the plan was, and has really always been a part of it,” Pelletier said.
He got his chance on Oct. 5, when the Maui Police Commission unanimously selected him to be the county’s next police chief. The commission is expected to take a final vote on Pelletier’s nomination on Wednesday, but that’s largely a formality.
Pelletier, his wife and twin teenagers already are packing up and moving their lives from Las Vegas to Maui.
