The person, or persons, responsible for a recent series of on-street tire slashings need to be nabbed, and quick.

Dozens of folks who had parked along Date Street overnight Thursday found their tires slashed Friday morning. That brazen vandalism came about a week after the tires of seven vehicles were slashed May 11 on North Kuakini Street, plus another seven slashings on May 10 along Nuuanu Avenue.

Police say they don’t know if any of the criminal-property incidents are related. But surely, the culprit or culprits must be known to someone. Call police at 529-3111, CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellphone with tips.

A new police station for Waianae

It took a decade, but the new Waianae Police Station opened Friday — a facility that’s nearly four times the size of the previous Honolulu Police Department substation that opened in 1961. The 25,172-square-foot, two-story building on Farrington Highway cost $16.4 million.

The station has all the bells and whistles: 14 holding cells — up from three in the old substation — bulletproof windows, an emergency generator, a full-service receiving desk and a 90-foot radio tower that’s built to withstand a Category 4 hurricane. Not to mention there’s an $80,000 ceramic mural by a Waianae artist that adorns the front of the building. For residents and police, it’s a welcome addition to the Waianae Coast.