Already faced with a manpower crisis due to the deployment of reservists to Hawaii, the Department of Public Safety may yet lose its commissioner\u2014Edward Camacho\u2014if he receives a deployment order from the Army Reserve.<\/p>\n
The department\u2019s deputy commissioner for administration, Franklin Babauta, would leave for Hawaii tomorrow as part of the reservists\u2019 deployment. <\/p>\n
Camacho is an Army Reserve major. Camacho said that he would have no choice but to comply with a deployment order, if he is issued one. \u201cSo far, I have not received an order yet,\u201d he said yesterday.<\/p>\n
The commissioner said Gov. Juan N. Babauta knew about his enlistment with the Army Reserve when the CNMI\u2019s chief executive appointed him to the top Public Safety Department post.<\/p>\n
Camacho said he was even on active duty status when he was appointed DPS commissioner, but had to relinquish the status to give way to his stint with the Babauta Cabinet.<\/p>\n
Should Camacho be called to active military service, the highest-ranking DPS official who would remain in the department is Santiago Tudela, the deputy commissioner for operations.<\/p>\n
Camacho said the rest of the leadership at the divisions within DPS are not members of the Army Reserve.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow\u2019s deployment would leave the DPS with 115 policemen and 71 firefighters on Saipan. Some 30 personnel would leave for Hawaii for a three-week training, with the possibility that the deployment would last longer amid Pentagon\u2019s call for reservists to augment U.S. troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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