{"id":397548,"date":"2023-08-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=397548"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Probe-will-hopefully-get-to-bottom-of-missing-DFW-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Probe-will-hopefully-get-to-bottom-of-missing-DFW-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Probe will hopefully get to bottom of missing DFW firearms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Arnold I. Palacios hopes that the investigation at the Division of Fish and Wildlife will shed light as to who is responsible for the nine missing firearms issued to DFW.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should not happen,\u201d said Palacios during a press briefing. Monday.<\/p>\n

As far as he is concerned, there should only one individual who should have the key to a gun safe, he said..<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was there, I was really leery that people would check in and out and I was looking at the SOP (Standard Operating Procedures). They didn\u2019t really have an SOP for it,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n

He said he reached out to the Department of Public Safety because he personally believes that DFW should put the safe in the DPS armory.<\/p>\n

Palacios underscored the need to have a more robust SOP about guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t continue to operate that way and not be accountable for those weapons and firearms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The governor said he always has reservation about firearms.<\/p>\n

He said when he served at DLNR, they never had firearms.<\/p>\n

Palacios said it was much later when a petition came up to change the law that allows conservation officers to carry guns.<\/p>\n

DLNR discovered last May 4 that eight DFW rifles and one handgun were unaccounted for and were deemed missing after the Office of the Public Auditor notified various government agencies that it wants a survey of all government-issued firearms in the CNMI.<\/p>\n


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