HONOLULU (KHON2) -- The Honolulu Police Department said its best detectives are investigating the deadly Aliamanu fireworks explosion that happened on New Year's Day, injuring dozens and killing four people. They added that current laws aren't strong enough to stop the problem of illegal fireworks. Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You On Thursday, Jan. 16, the Honolulu City Council discussed the issue with police and the prosecuting attorney to see if there are any city and county laws that they can work on to help police mitigate the fireworks problem. "I do know it's [the investigation] being taken seriously, homicide has been assigned and we have the best detectives on it, and I'm confident if there's an ability to prosecute it will happen," said HPD Maj. Mike Lambert. Six burn patients from NYE firework explosion flown to US mainland Major Lambert has also been nominated as the state's next Dept. of Law Enforcement Director and has been working with the state and county on how they can crack down on the problem. He said it's difficult to prosecute fireworks due to legal definitions and they need more simple and enforceable laws. He gave an example of what an officer would have to do currently to penalize a person for fireworks. "You're gonna have to attest to this code, this federal code, and then, of course, then, as we move into prosecution, the ability to have an expert witness to support what the officers saw, and that's another that's another domino that we have," he explained. Earlier this week, the state Attorney General said it would introduce a new bill aimed at combating illegal fireworks by making it easier for police to enforce. HPD's acting assistant chief described the situation as a boat slowly sinking and lawmakers and council members were on board the ship. "We're all in the boat, and just four or five holes are in the boat and the water is coming in," explained Asst. Chief Brian Lynch. "The water is up to our waist, but we realize we have a problem so we want to come up with a solution to the problem so we come up with a law and the law is a bucket. So I give you guys [lawmakers], the buckets. We go down and we start bailing the water out, but the water isn't going down, and we look at each other and we look at the bucket and there's holes in the bucket and our buckets aren't good enough to solve the problem. But nobody is looking at the holes inside of the boat. Finally, someone has a great idea and says let's stop the water from coming into the boat, so we do that and suddenly the water drops from our hips to our ankles. And then we can manage that [HPD], so if we can stop these things from coming into the island, we can choke that. He said the biggest problem is the fireworks coming in at the ports and addressing it helps officers nail down the people who are blowing off the illegal fireworks. Check out more news from around Hawaii Maj. Lambert said fireworks are mostly being stored at homes and being shipped in via boat and air. he is hopeful new laws will help get a better handle on the illegal fireworks entering the state.