The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety (DPS; ch, Dipåttamentun Sinåfu' Pupbliku; Carolinian: ) is a law enforcement agency and firefighting agency of the

Northern Mariana Islands The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; ch, Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; cal, Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonw ...

. It is one of the CNMI executive agencies, and as of 2015 its commissioner is Robert A. Guerrero. The Department of Public Safety has two divisions,

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and

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. Responsibility for

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were under the jurisdiction of the DPS until administratively separated into its own department in 2005. The Northern Marianas also have Ports Authority Police that patrols all of the

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s and

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s in the island chain. Conservation Officers are also

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law enforcement officers in the CNMI. The Department of Public Safety's Traffic Section is composed of eleven police officers that make up the three teams who watch over the streets of Saipan, the central island of the Northern Mariana Islands. The three teams or units are Daily Enforcement,

DUI Driving under the influence (DUI)—also called driving while impaired, impaired driving, driving while intoxicated (DWI), drunk driving, operating while intoxicated (OWI), operating under the influence (OUI), operating vehicle under the infl ...

and Traffic Investigation. To date, three members of the department have died in the line of duty. The divisions include: * Criminal Investigation Division * Division of Motor Vehicle * Fire Division * Police Division * Rota DPS *

Tinian Tinian ( or ; old Japanese name: 天仁安島, ''Tenian-shima'') is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Together with uninhabited neighboring Aguiguan, it forms Tinian Municipality, one of the ...

DPS In 2014 the department began conducting drug tests of its officers.CNMI police officers to be drug tested
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. Retrieved on May 7, 2015.

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External links

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety
Law enforcement agencies of the Northern Mariana Islands Fire departments of the United States Political organizations based in the Northern Mariana Islands {{NorthernMarianas-stub