‘Outages affect detectives’ work, damage computers’

Posted on Sep 06 2008

The constant outages on Saipan are greatly affecting the work of detectives at the Department of Public Safety and have in fact damaged some of their computers, a ranking police official said.

DPS Criminal Investigation Division chief Maj. Edward H. Manalili told Saipan Tribune that detectives would schedule interviews with victims and witnesses at CID but, since the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.’s announced schedule of outages are useless, a lot of times the outages occur in the middle of interviews.

“It’s results in the juggling of schedules,” he pointed out.

He said all their backup batteries are burned out because of the outages.

The CID chief said the frequent outages caused three of their computers to completely break down, while two to three other computers need constant repair.

Since detectives could not do their reports when outages occur and considering it is too hot inside their offices, many of them just hang around outside.

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