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While its Hollywood version gets the spotlight, the NCIS Hawai‘i Field Office team continues to do what
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Sure, the latest locally based crime-fighting show, NCIS Hawai‘i, fabricates the truth in some ways — primarily in the agents’ ability
to solve cases in less than 60 minutes. But Special Agent in Charge Norman Dominesey, aka the man in the position that actress Vanessa Lachey plays (Jane Tennant) on the CBS series, says it’s not en- tirely a Hollywood exaggeration.
genuinely interested in getting to know us at NCIS at our Hawai‘i Field Office, and it was also very im- portant to them to be respectful and honor not only our organization, but also the Navy and Marine Corps, in addition to all of the military members they represent on the screen.
“I love the teamwork I see displayed on the show,” says Dominesey, who took the helm of the NCIS Hawai‘i Field Office in 2019. “It’s what we see in our field office and throughout our organiza- tion. Law enforcement is a profession where team- work is critical. We’re all on the same team work- ing on the same goals, which is to protect those who can’t protect themselves or to be a voice for a victim who can no longer speak.
“Seeing a television show based on your real-life job is pretty incredible. I am a little worried that Special Agent Tennant might be taking my job one day,” he adds with a laugh.
(Top) Special Agent in Charge Norman Dominesey
(Above) On the recently redesigned NCIS Hawai‘i Field Office coin, it includes the office’s motto: “E ho‘olawelawe a me ea malu” (to protect and serve).
Another common misconception is that NCIS agents are in the military and, although there are some active duty personnel in the crew, a large percentage of the unit are 1811 series spe- cial agent federal law enforcement officers, aka civilians. The 50-member office is also made up of professional staff (who do a lot of the administrative work behind the scenes and are ones Dominesey calls the “backbone of the operation”), intelligence officers and retired Honolulu Police Department detectives, to name a few. The latter serve as senior operation specialists and are essential when NCIS works with its community partners, such as HPD, FBI,
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“NCIS is a place where your peers ... do every- thing in their power to help one another without you needing to ask them for help — and that’s sim- ilar to what I see on the show.”
Along with the fact that Dominesey can catch a reenactment of his 9-to-5 while flipping channels in the living room, there are countless other reasons why he takes great pride in the work he does.
authority to investigate, arrest and execute war- rants for civilians involved with crimes that have a clear nexus to the U.S. Department of the Navy.
In fact, Dominesey, along with his fellow agents at NCIS headquarters, are heavily in- volved in the making of the show, whether that’s by reviewing scenes beforehand, answer- ing questions for accuracy, giving tours of the grounds or, for some agents, even serving as background characters on their days off.
NCIS, which stands for Naval Criminal Inves- tigative Service, is the premier law enforcement agency for the U.S. Department of the Navy. In short, its goals are to prevent terrorism, protect national secrets and reduce crime.
“Our primary mission is to support Navy per- sonnel, their family members and our resources. Essentially, to do everything we can to keep them safe,” explains Dominesey.
“Most of us, especially at this office, feel a deep connection to NCIS Hawai‘i because we had the opportunity to meet on several occasions with its creators, writers, directors, actors and members of the production team, and their professionalism re- ally stood out,” shares Dominesey. “They were all
“We also conduct counterintelligence investiga- tions and operations, counterterrorism investiga- tions and operations, and we employ a robust cyber capability to disrupt, deter and mitigate criminal terrorist and foreign intelligence threats to the De- partment of the Navy,” he adds.
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