Monday, August 25, 2008

PI Discuess Iolani Palace Security

The state has beefed up security at Iolani Palace after a Hawaiian sovereignty group took it over briefly a week ago.

KITV sought the advice of a security expert who found some simple and relatively inexpensive measures that could have slowed or prevented the recent palace takeover.

Sovereignty activists chained Iolani Palace's gates on Aug. 15, sealing off the grounds. A week later, the gates are still vulnerable, private investigator Steve Goodenow said.

"Anyone can manipulate them," he said.

Goodenow has spent 40 years working in the security and private investigation industry.

He said a low-tech and relatively cheap solution would be to chain or lock them open. A more expensive option would be to modify the gates so they are electronically controlled.



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