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IN WAR ON DRUGS
DPS prepares to begin drug testing; efforts revived to create drug court
The Department of Public Safety has been working on efforts to begin drug testing on its officers, while the local courts have been actively reviving their efforts to create a drug court.
DPS Commissioner James Deleon Guerrero told reporters that the Office of the Governor has already committed to give the department the money that is required to begin drug testing for law enforcement officers.
Deleon Guerrero disclosed that there is a current effort that has been developed between DPS and the governor’s special assistant for personnel management to work in coordination with the Office of Personnel and Management so that they can begin the drug testing.
He believes that after a month and a half, everything will be in place and the drug testing can begin.
The commissioner also disclosed that local courts are actively reviving their efforts in order for a drug court to start in the CNMI.
Deleon Guerrero said they had a meeting with one of the judges, who expressed a willingness to restart efforts to get the drug court going.
“I think all the publicity [on the department’s war against illegal drugs] is adding pressure to everybody to do a better job at drug enforcement,” he said.
“We need the courts to be in these efforts,” Deleon Guerrero added.
