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Guam Police Department reports multimillion-dollar lapses, warns of sustained overtime shortfall
Summary
During a legislative oversight hearing, Guam Police Department officials and senators disputed lapse totals — one lawmaker cited $9.3 million — and staff warned long-term overtime and pay-adjustment gaps are driving recurring shortfalls and complicating recruitment for funded vacancies.
Guam — Officials from the Guam Police Department told lawmakers that accounting timing and pay adjustments helped create lapses in the agency's budget that have since been returned to surplus and reappropriated, while senators pressed for clarity on discrepant totals.
"And so when there was a lapse and we were not authorized to use that, then it returned back to surplus and reappropriated to a different program or a different department," a GPD finance representative said when asked about unspent carryover. Senator Barnett cited a figure of $9.3 million for lapses, while department staff said their internal tracking placed the amount lower, nearer to "8Something" million.
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