Members of the Maui Police Department's 99th Recruit Class stand together following a graduation ceremony Friday at the Grand Wailea Resort. Photo courtesy Maui Police Department

The Maui Police Department welcomed more than a dozen new officers with the graduation of its 99th Recruit Class on Friday at the Grand Wailea Resort.

The new officers are Jayson Cuaresma, Keanu Deboma, Kainoa Deguilmo, Casey James Del Rosario, Renelyn Domingo, Dalton Jardine, Kelvin Ly, Jared Madamba, Patrick McEvoy-Ng, Jacob Naganuma, Garett Rundle, Patrick Valoy and Ekolu Watanabe.

The newly graduated officers will undergo a minimum of four months of on-the-job field training with veteran police officers before being qualified to work alone.

During the ceremony, Naganuma was honored with the Outstanding Recruit Award.

Other awards included Deboma, who won the Sensei Shinichi Suzuki Award for arrest and defense tactics; Valoy, who won the Exemplary Composition Award; and Del Rosario, who won the M. Cecil “Rusty” Dickson Physical Fitness Award.

Madamba won the Neil T. Endo Outstanding Firearms Award, and the Scholastic Achievement Award went to Rundle.