Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann delivered his fifth state of the city address Thursday morning.

Amid talk of road and sewer repairs and mass transit, the mayor proposed taking his beach and park sweeps one step further, by creating an h-p-d beach unit.

And if you ask the mayor, it's a plan worth singing about. "My Hawaii, my rainbow heaven," the mayor belted out to start his state of the city address.

He has a new plan for when it comes to safety. "One of our new initiatives this year will be the formation of a parks patrol," Hannemann said.

"So what we're looking at now is creating a parks unit with supervisors. We're going to start small and put it together," added Honolulu Police Chief Boise Correa.

It may start small, but Correa sees potential. "So you'll start off as a unit, and hopefully someday it can get bigger and become a unit or something of that nature," he said.

Correa and Hannemann say the new unit would start along the west Oahu coastline. "May not be the most popular thing to do with the people who look at the beach parks as sort of their own. But I really believe it's all part of what communities are saying," the Mayor said.

"I think it's something the community has been talking about. I think we can combine that with community effort. You know community policing to really bring some security, some safety, some presence to our parks," said Honolulu City Council member Todd Apo.

Correa believe entire communities would benefit from such a move, not just park users. "See right now most of our parks are being patrolled by patrol officers. So, it will relieve those officers to do more things in the community and we'll put a specialized unit, or group of officers in the parks," Correa said.

As for cost, Correa and Hannemann both say the plan is in its infancy.

But if requests to the city council go smoothly Correa believes he can have a park patrol in place by summer.