{"id":392914,"date":"2023-06-01T06:06:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=392914"},"modified":"2023-06-01T06:06:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:06:20","slug":"bermudes-working-on-combined-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bermudes-working-on-combined-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bermudes working on combined academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_392931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392931\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Clement-Bermudes-mug-PW-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-392931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Clement-Bermudes-mug-PW-1-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clement Bermudes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Department of Public Safety Commissioner Clement R. Bermudes looks forward to having another police cycle or academy this year as he believes this will help reduce overtime.<\/p>\n<p>In his testimony last Friday before the House of Representatives\u2019 Ways and Means Committee to go over DPS\u2019 proposed budget for fiscal year 2024, Bermudes said he is working to have a combined law enforcement academy so the department and other law enforcement agencies can share the cost.<\/p>\n<p>In response to questions by vice speaker Joel C. Camacho (Ind-Saipan), the commissioner said they have several vacancies at DPS, yet the last police cycle was the 26<sup>th<\/sup> about two years ago, during which there were 36 cadets, and was one of the largest the DPS had.<\/p>\n<p>A typical police cycle has about 25 cadets because it\u2019s considered a manageable size.<\/p>\n<p>Bermudes said a police academy is designed to increase the number of personnel so that they can minimize overtime as an organization.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that they are in talks with the Northern Marianas College because he will need officers and that they\u2019re looking to have a police academy as early as this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said the financial part is a factor so they need to run the academy where it\u2019s not just for DPS though. \u201cWe have to start breaking down these obstacles. We\u2019re running a basic law enforcement academy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bermudes said what they teach about criminal law to a police officer is the same with a conservation officer and that the only difference is that a conservation officer will not need traffic law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said that, based on his talks with other law enforcement agencies, the interest is there to have a combined law enforcement academy, which happened the last time in the late 90\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Department of Public Safety Commissioner Clement R. Bermudes looks forward to having another police&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":392931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392914","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=392914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}