Guam Cops Are
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Clean - Almost
After months of swirling con troversy, a legislative committee has concluded that Guam’s police force is basically honest despite dis closures of several criminal ac tivities attributed to police.
The Guam Legislature’s select committee on police corruption concluded that most policemen were honest, but suffered from poor
leadership, inefficiency and poor
morale.
The report noted that there were an “alarming number of criminal violations on the part of police of ficers”. It outlined 28 particular cases, 11 of which involved illegal drug activities.
The committee’s investigator, James Miles, said in his report to the committee that “corruption is so widespread and of such a magnitude that it is beyond the capabilities of the present government to cope with the problem without federal assis tance”.