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GPD tells Guam Legislature staffing shortfalls jeopardize performance-based budgeting goals
Summary
At a Feb. 10 oversight hearing, Guam Police Department leaders told the Legislature they face critical personnel shortfalls and budget gaps, asking for funded positions and retention incentives while warning existing lapses and funding transfers limit their ability to spend appropriations for operations.
Colonel Joseph S. Carbolito, appearing for Chief Stephen C. Ignacio, told the Legislature on Feb. 10 that the Guam Police Department lacks enough sworn and civilian staff to sustain routine operations and to implement the department's performance-based budget for FY2027. "These are actual numbers that we really need, senator," Carbolito said when asked whether the positions listed in the departmentsubmission were essential.
The department provided multiple vacancy counts that senators pressed to reconcile: GPD said the Operations Bureau shows roughly 107 vacancies under one accounting, while senators referenced as many as 201 total vacancies across bureaus. Senator Turlahi summarized the department's ask as approximately $8.8 million to fund 201 vacancies, a figure GPD used to…
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