Maui is the largest island and the population center of Maui County, Hawaii.  The Maui County Police Department has staged demand-reduction operations from undisclosed locations within the city, and in other areas of Maui County. Following their arrests, sex buyers have had their identities publicized in press.  For example, in October, 2019, thirteen men were arrested during a prostitution operation conducted at a Maui hotel by the Maui Police Department.  Members of the Vice Gambling and Morals Unit and Criminal Intelligence Unit officers targeted sex buyers by setting up a reverse sting where a female police officer posed as a prostituted person to elicit responses from sex buyers. Over the course of the two and half days that the operation was held, 13 men were arrested, and almost $3,000 was recovered.  The identities of those arrested were publicly released.