Community holds hearing on law enforcement
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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - Speaking to a committee of the Senate Indian Affairs 17 March, on the field of consultation on the law in the country of India, Salt River Indian Community President Diane Enos Congress requested reinstatement of a criminal justice government to government. Committee chaired by the late Senator Byron Dorgan, DN.D. And Senator Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., With his colleagues at the hearing at the Salt River Community Building. The area was the first consultation organised in the town and the Committee of the Fourth consultation of this type as a whole. More than 50 people from different organizations and Native communities packed the room to hear testimony Enos, Navajo Nation Public Safety Division Director Sampson cowboy, and Colorado River Indian Tribes vice president Enas Eldred. Other witnesses, as regards law and order in the country, including in Arizona Indian US Attorney Diane Humetewa, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and Rod Parker police chief Mendoza. Les”Adam Walsh [Child Protection and Safety] law and the law on violence against women and the participation and tribes recognized tribal mandates compliance with certain requirements, such as the maintenance of a register of all Offenders sex offenders; tribes do not yet have the power, Maintains arrest or non-Indian,’’said Enos, referring to a prepared statement. Currently, all the tribes do not have access to information, the National Crime Center in the year 1967 has been created after the FBI said that law enforcement agencies across the country had a critical need for ‘instant access to the date criminal Enos. In 1971, all 50 states participated in the NCIC, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is available on federal, cantonal and local law enforcement agencies and other criminal justice agencies. While the Police Department Salt River has access to the NCIC not all tribal law enforcement. ”We need for our police officers of the necessity of laws, tools and protection to do their job of protecting our Salt River Indian community members,’’said Enos. Shared with crime statistics Dorgan Kyl, and in order to give them an idea of criminal prosecution authorities of SRIC. She said in 2006, there were 55 Drive-by Shootings in the SRIC and 29 in the year 2007, in which eight arrests and two cases of serious violations. ”This year we have 12 Drive-by Shootings, and one foot was shooting, where the suspect was arrested,”Enos said, and added that, in February 2008, for a total of six-Drive by Shootings occurred within an hour Sunday morning. ”Fortunately, there were no fatal injuries,’’she said. ”On the same day, two missiles were ignited our police. Some of the weapons seized in the drive-by shooting include high-powered rifles, AK-47, SKS, shotguns and pistols. Currently, there are no laws, drive-by shooting a federal crime.” Enas said:”It is clear that BIA is not in the trust and other obligations vis-à-vis CRIT.” He said that the lack of repression and imprisonment of funding CRIT implies serious problems, such as a decrease in the presence of Public Security of the reservation. ”In addition, even if the BIA took the responsibility for the program, such as juvenile detention, it is not able to follow,”he said. Kongress”funktionieren, to ensure adequate funding for Indian agriculture and law enforcement to improve the responsiveness of the BIA to meet the needs of the tribe of programs.” |