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Crimebuster Manalili is back as CIB chief
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Posted on Jan 11 2006
Crimebuster Police Maj. Edward Manalili is back as chief of the Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigation Bureau.
DPS spokesman Eric F. David told the Saipan Tribune yesterday that DPS Commissioner Juan I. Wabol tapped Manalili to lead the CIB again.
David said there has been discussion as to where then-CIB commanding officer Capt. Lawrence Camacho would be re-assigned.
When asked for comment, Manalili said he is very happy to go back to CIB and provide the leadership and guidance in the bureau.
“I’m willing to work. I think that’s where I’m mostly effective,” the police major said.
In December 2004, then-DPS Commissioner Santiago F. Tudela pulled Manalili from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to lead the CIB.
In November 2005, Tudela transferred Manalili to another division and placed Camacho as the new CIB commander.
Many DPS staff said Tudela had to pull Manalili from CIB because the major and then Deputy Commissioner for Operations Juan Salas “could not get along.”
From 1982 to 1991, Manalili was a U.S. Marine Corps Military Police. In October 1983, he joined the operation “Urgent Fury” invasion and liberation of Grenada. From November 1983 to February 1984, he was a member of the Peacekeeping force in Beirut, Lebanon.
In 1991, the DPS hired Manalili as SWAT coordinator/trainer and created the DPS Tactical Response Enforcement Team.
He was then transferred to Patrol as field sergeant, then as Crime Stoppers Program coordinator.
In 1996 to 2000, he joined the FBI Task Force. In 2000 and 2001 he was assigned back to patrol as shift officer in charge.
In 2001 and 2002, he was a member of the Attorney General Major Crime Task Force. In 2002 to 2004, he was back at the FBI Task Force.
In 1998, he attended the FBI National Academy. He attended the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Executive Course in 2004 and was invited to attend a Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism course at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, the Saipan Tribune learned.
