{"id":225790,"date":"2016-04-19T06:06:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=225790"},"modified":"2016-04-19T06:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:06:57","slug":"dps-promoting-60-cops-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dps-promoting-60-cops-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS promoting 60 cops, personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Safety is promoting 60 police officers and personnel, according to DPS Commissioner Robert Guerrero. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview yesterday, Guerrero said Gov. Ralph DLG Torres already signed his recommendation to promote over 50 police officers with ranks of police officer 1, 2, and 3.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero said the promotion is in line with Torres\u2019 commitment to increase the salaries of police officers.<\/p>\n<p>He said covered by the reallocation or promotion are the ones making below $25,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero said the promotion will take effect possibly in a week because they are just waiting actions from the Department of Finance and the Office of Personnel Management.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said he is happy to promote the officers because the last promotion happened at DPS was way back in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero said his next target is to promote those officers having the rank of sergeant.<\/p>\n<p>He said those getting promotion are not for Saipan personnel only, but that Tinian and Rota DPS are undergoing salary adjustment or promotion as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Safety is promoting 60 police officers and personnel, according to DPS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,215],"class_list":["post-225790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dps","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}