{"id":8737,"date":"2011-12-14T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T08:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2011-12-14T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T08:32:02","slug":"number-of-arrests-increased-by-30-percent-mafnas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/number-of-arrests-increased-by-30-percent-mafnas\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of arrests increased by 30 percent-Mafnas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns114978.jpg\" alt=\"Commissioner Ray Mafnas of the Department of Public Safety, right, talks about the need for community partnerships to address the growing policing needs in the CNMI during the Rotary Club of Saipan membership meeting at the Hyatt Regency Saipan yesterday. (Clarissa V. David)\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0As of yesterday, the Department of Public Safety had 10,561 misdemeanor and felony cases on its caseload, with the number of incarcerations and arrests seeing an \u201cunprecedented\u201d increase of 30 percent in the last few months, according to Commissioner Ray Mafnas.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Rotary Club of Saipan general membership meeting yesterday, Mafnas disclosed that the DPS handles about 40 complaints or calls everyday, processes five to nine arrestees, and investigates seven to 10 crimes.<\/p>\n<p>With only 13 detectives on its roster, Mafnas said the agency plans to use \u201cnew technology\u201d through a database and case management systems.<\/p>\n<p>Mafnas said plans are underway to find a vendor that would provide these services, which will allow them to better handle their workload problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has to be procured and implemented. That is furiously underway. We are diligently pursuing all avenues to implement this before summer next year,\u201d Mafnas said.<\/p>\n<p>Another project in the works, he said, is putting together a \u201creserve police force\u201d who will be \u201ctrained and certified and expected to work at least eight hours per month.\u201d \u201cWe can certify them and this will augment the financial limitations that we are currently facing today in the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mafnas noted that community policing is one of the important pillars of policing, along with human resources, financial resources, and physical resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity policing is the only way to successfully provide excellent police services to our community. In other words, community partnership is inseparable from successful policing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In support of this community partnership, Mafnas said they plan to have a police foundation that will provide assistance and support to DPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be strictly managed outside of the police department by non-police officers or anyone associated with any law enforcement organization,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Changing&#8217; and &#8216;costly&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mafnas emphasized that the face of policing in the CNMI is changing amid the cultural and ethnic diversity on the islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commonwealth state police division is changing. It will never be the same again because the changes must come as a result of fast-changing social, economic, and political landscape,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mafnas also noted that the rising number of incarcerations is \u201ccostly\u201d as this means an increase in expenses for feeding, providing clothing, and other needs to those incarcerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter \u00a0As of yesterday, the Department of Public Safety had 10,561 misdemeanor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}