POHNPEI STATE
Executive retreat
June 11-12, 2008
FSM-China Friendship Complex
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY
Organizational Structure
Director
Emergency
Assistant
Officer
Division of Corrections
&
Rehabilitation
Administrative
Officer
Division of Police
&
Security
Division of Police & Security
Divisional structure
FIRE & RESCUE
•POIx1
•WIA - 4
•Volunteer - 4
Total Personnel
• Police – 83
• Civilian - 14
Chief of Police
(Excluding Director)
Deputy
Special Assignment:
Project:
•
Det. Sgt x1
•
Sgt.x1
PSO
PIO
Training Officer
Detective
Patrol
Traffic
Administration
Clerk
Lieutenant.
General
Crime
Det.x4
Forensics
POIII
POX1
JAT
Sgt.
Det.x2
Drugs
Narcotics
Det.x1
1st
shift
Sgt.
POx9
Substation
Kitti
Sgt
POX5
Lieutenant
2nd
shift
Sgt.
POx13
3rd
shift
Sgt.
POx6
Substation
Madolenihmw
Sgt.
POX4
Relief
Sgt.
POx6
Court
Process
Lieutenant
Clerk
POX1
Maintenance
POIII
Mechanic
POX2
Property
Evidence &
Armory
Patrol Lt.
Records
Sgt.
POx2
Division of Corrections & Rehabilitation
Divisional structure
Sworn Officer: 20
Civilian: 3
Chief of Correction
Captain
Clerk
Lieutenant
Lieutenant
Cook
SGT X 1
SGT X 1
SGT X 1
SGT X 1
2 Civilians
OFCRX3
OFCRX3
OFCRX3
OFCRX3
Pohnpei State Police 2005 -2009
Strategic Plan
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To serve and protect the community and to uphold the
law for a safer and more secure Pohnpei
A respected, responsive and effective organization providing
quality policing services in partnership with the community
for
a safer Pohnpei
Responding
Effective
Partnership to
reduce crime
CRIME
PREVENTION
1. Improve public
education and awareness
re crime
2. Increase visits to
communities, including
churches
3. Creating &
Strengthening partnership
w/community leaders
4. Dev. Programs to
address youth issues
5. Strengthen partnership
w/other law enforcement
agencies & Dept. to
reduce Crime
6. Establishing coordination for crime
prevention & community
safety initiative
Improved
Operational
Response
POLICE RESPONSE &
PATROL
effectively to
crime &
Detecting &
Prosecuting
Offenders
CRIME
OPERATIONS
Improved
level of
Road Safety
ROAD SAFETY
Improved
management,
Leadership &
Accountability
MANAGEMENT &
LEADERSHIP
Mission
Effective Police
Administration
How
to
get
ther
e
ADMINISTRATION
What
we
will
achie
ve
1. Develop
Strategic planning
at all levels.
2. Developing a
monitoring &
evaluation system
3. Upgrade
evidence storage
room
4. Improve
workplace
conditions
5. Developing an
effective rostering
system
6. Further
developing police
training
7. Recruit
additional female
police officers
8. Liaison
w/National and
state re funding
and resources
Enforcing the law with impartiality and fairness; Continually improving our performance; Respecting and caring for our people; 9.
Responding
Strengthen
to customers’ needs; Providing a professional policing service while respecting the culture and tradition of the community; Behaving
police transport
ethically and with respect
system
1.Ensure operational
police have sufficient
resources
2. Increasing &
targeting police
patrols
3. Assessing &
Providing training in
policing operation
4. Improving
communication
system
5. Strengthening
Emergency response
capacity
6. Conducting
operations re alcohol
offences.
7.Improving levels of
officers safety
1. Strengthen case flow
management
2. Strengthen
relationship between
police & AG’s office
3. Improve crime
Intelligence capacity
4. Strengthen JAT unit
5. Provide investigation
training as identified
6. Liaising
W/International law
enforcement agencies
re Transnational crime
7. Develop forensic
investigation
techniques
8. Strengthen drug
operations
1.Increase police traffic 1. Develop
patrol on road
management and time
2. Conduct road safety management skills
Awareness within the
2. Strengthen
Community & in schools communication
3. Identify & providing between police
Training for traffic officer officers & their
4. Gathering & analyzing leaders
Information on traffic
3. Promote trust
Collisions and citations between managers,
5. Conduct road block supervisors and
Operations to detect
subordinates
Traffic offences
4. Develop a clear
6. Develop partnership succession leadership
With other agencies &
program
Stakeholders to maximize5. Strengthen
Road safety.
supervision
7. Maintain vehicle driver 6. Strengthen capacity
And registration system to enforce discipline &
response to
complaints against
police
7. Improve level of
police morale
Our performance and Success indicators are in Our
Annual Corporate Plan
Vision
Key
Activity
Valu
e
Measu
re
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY

Budget: $1,290,507
– Department of Public Safety
 Directors
office
– 907, 648
 Division
of Police & Security
– $907,678
 Division
of Corrections & Rehabilitation
– $270,369
 Search
& Rescue
– 5,000
 Police
Commission
– 27, 080
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY
 Resources:
– Personnel


DPS – 83 Sworn officers
Civilian:
– 6 Permanent employees
– 4 WIA
– 4 Volunteer


DOC – 20 Sworn officers
Civilian:
– 3 Permanent employee
– 4 WIA
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY
 Accomplishments:
–
–
–
–
–
–
5 year strategic plan
SWAT Team
Certified Trainer/Curriculum developer
Fingerprint specialist (still in progress)
Ethics & Integrity project (Pilot)
Sexual violence awareness project (FSM)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY

Challenges:
– Shortage of man power
– Fuel cost
– Specialized investigation
 Arson,
–
–
–
–
–
–
Traffic & Firearms
Centralized emergency number
Radio transmission
Build new prison
Build new police station
Standardized police vehicles (Safety vehicles)
Upgrade Evidence room
General - Offense by number for period 2004 -2006
General - Offences by Number for period 2004 - 2006
800
700
Numbers
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Assaults
Behav iour/Conduct
Stealing Offences
Driv ing Offences
Drug & Alcohol
Other
Abuse
OffenceTypes
2004
2005
2006
Summary of Trends - % of Offence Type over period
2004 – 2006
% of Offence Type - Period 2004 - 2006
70%
66%
60%
Percentage
50%
40%
30%
20%
14%
12%
10%
1%
4%
2%
0%
Assaults
Behaviour/Conduct
Stealing Offences
Driving Offences
Type of Offence
Drug and Alcohol
Abuse
Other
Summary: Offence Type by Number of Offences 2004 – 2006
2004
2005
2006
Sub Total
Nos
%
Sub Totals
To Total
Crime
Assaults
117
133
149
399
14
Patrol &
Detectives
Behavior/Conduct
546
611
703
1860
66
Patrol
Stealing Offences
124
104
114
342
12
Patrol
Driving Offences
7
14
8
29
1
Traffic
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
36
31
52
119
4
Detectives – Drugs and
Narcotics
Other (Larceny/Forgery)
24
14
18
56
2
Patrol &
Detectives
Grand Totals
854
907
1046
2807
100
Types of Offences
Sections and/or
Specialized Areas
Responsible
Department of Public Safety
 Issues:
– Population trends including out migration
– Education and Cultural Status
– Environment and Status & Trends
Department of Public Safety
 Population
trends including out migration
– 2000 census
– Pohnpei
? - Out migration
 34000

– Crime prevention & Investigations

Crime increased
– Incarceration and Rehabilitation

Number of people incarcerated increased
Department of Public Safety
 Education
and Cultural Status
– Most officers are either high school graduate/some
college year
– Culture:
Death person
 Victims
 Tradition

Department of Public Safety
 Environment
–
–
–
–
–
and Status & Trends
FSM Capital
COM -FSM
Embassies
Migration is high
Foreign investments
Department of Public Safety
 Conclusion:
– Tremendous change have taken place in Pohnpei.
The need to address specialized areas to investigate
cases have taken place. Workload have been
double due to the need to have officer undergo
specialized trainings.
– The number of officers remains the same.