§571-73  No limitations on family courts. 
Nothing in section 571-71 or 571-72 shall be construed to divest family courts
of any of their powers, but the same shall specifically grant to the police
departments of the several counties the power to take; detain; question;
investigate; provide outreach, counsel, release, and follow-up services; and
refer to appropriate social or other agencies, private or governmental, as the
facts of the case appear to justify, minors coming within section 571-72,
subject, however, to sections 571-31 and 571-32. [L 1965, c 232, pt of §1;
Supp, §333-34; HRS §571-73; am L 1980, c 303, §3(2)]