Park swept of items left by homeless

City crews removed items left behind Friday morning by homeless campers at Kane­ohe Civic Center Neighborhood Park in a continuing effort to enforce a stored-property ordinance.

"The city does these types of enforcements four to five days a week at unannounced times and locations," said Jesse Broder Van Dyke, a city spokes­man.

Last week, cleanup operations conducted by crews from the city departments of Facility Maintenance and Parks and Recreation occurred in Wai­kiki and at the Nehoa Street drainage canal. Other locations in November included Kaka­ako, Kai­lua and Kohou Street.

The ordinance allows removal of personal items left on city property after a 24-hour advance notice.

In November city crews removed 14.3 tons of homeless people’s items from various locations on Oahu, Broder Van Dyke said.

Many of the homeless in the Kane­ohe park had vacated the area with the help of service providers before Friday’s operation.