Tabuk City, Kalinga - As a result of a survey which showed that this city accounts for two-thirds of the crimes takingplace in the province, the National Police Commission (Napolcom) office in the province has recommended the reassignment of three to four policemen from each of the seven towns of the province to this city.
The survey which was conducted by the local Napolcom at the instruction of Governor Floydelia Diasen and Vice Governor Jocel Baac covered the period January 2006 to June 2007 and revealed that of the 161 crimes which occurred in the province during the period, 104 or 65 percent took place in the city.
Of the 36 murders perpetrated in the province during the period, 24 or 66 percent were committed in Tabuk City. All the five homicides recorded during the period also took place in this city.
Kalinga Napolcom Director Fernando Cosidon said the survey confirms what has been accepted for a long time: Tabuk City is a crime-prone locality.
Rizal and Pinukpuk were distant second and third registering 28 and 17 crimes during the survey period, respectively.
On the opposite end were Tanudan and Tinglayan towns with the former registering zero crime rate during the period and the latter with just a case of threat and coercion disturbing its peace during the 18 months.
The recommendation of Cosidon jibes with the proposal of Tabuk City Mayor Camilo Lammawin, Jr. during the provincial peace and order council (PPOC) regular meeting November 9 that the city police force be augmented from the police contingents of other towns on the rationale that these towns are peaceful anyway.
Lammawin said that the assignment of more policemen in the city would enable the establishment of check points in Nambaran and Lacnog, the two notorious hold-up zones in the city.
The mayors of Tanudan, Tinglayan, Pinukpuk and Balbalan who all reported that there were no crimes in their towns in the past month balked at the proposal but Lammawin who is the president of the local chapter of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines said that the matter will be discussed during their meeting.
Saying that problems in peace and order is but natural among population centers like Tabuk City, Cordillera Police Director Eugene Martin who was present during the meeting promised that some of the 150 new police recruits will be assigned to Tabuk City "to show our concern for peace here."
Police Chief Inspector Romulo Danglose, who was just relieved as OlC^chief of police of this city, has informed the media the city police force is seriously undermanned.
"If we follow the prescribed policeman to population ratio for cities which is one to 500 residents, we lack 57 policemen. Compounding our problem is the wide area of the city," Danglose said.
Danglose admitted that the crime-prone Tabuk-Tuguegarao and the Tabuk-Roxas highways are the two main headaches of city law enforcers and are ruining the city in the eyes of businessmen and even ordinary commuters even as he expressed the hope that the new police provincial director will prioritize these highways.
Police Senior Superintendent Maximo Valiente assumed as Kalinga's police director last November 9. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW, Nov. 25, 2007
The survey which was conducted by the local Napolcom at the instruction of Governor Floydelia Diasen and Vice Governor Jocel Baac covered the period January 2006 to June 2007 and revealed that of the 161 crimes which occurred in the province during the period, 104 or 65 percent took place in the city.
Of the 36 murders perpetrated in the province during the period, 24 or 66 percent were committed in Tabuk City. All the five homicides recorded during the period also took place in this city.
Kalinga Napolcom Director Fernando Cosidon said the survey confirms what has been accepted for a long time: Tabuk City is a crime-prone locality.
Rizal and Pinukpuk were distant second and third registering 28 and 17 crimes during the survey period, respectively.
On the opposite end were Tanudan and Tinglayan towns with the former registering zero crime rate during the period and the latter with just a case of threat and coercion disturbing its peace during the 18 months.
The recommendation of Cosidon jibes with the proposal of Tabuk City Mayor Camilo Lammawin, Jr. during the provincial peace and order council (PPOC) regular meeting November 9 that the city police force be augmented from the police contingents of other towns on the rationale that these towns are peaceful anyway.
Lammawin said that the assignment of more policemen in the city would enable the establishment of check points in Nambaran and Lacnog, the two notorious hold-up zones in the city.
The mayors of Tanudan, Tinglayan, Pinukpuk and Balbalan who all reported that there were no crimes in their towns in the past month balked at the proposal but Lammawin who is the president of the local chapter of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines said that the matter will be discussed during their meeting.
Saying that problems in peace and order is but natural among population centers like Tabuk City, Cordillera Police Director Eugene Martin who was present during the meeting promised that some of the 150 new police recruits will be assigned to Tabuk City "to show our concern for peace here."
Police Chief Inspector Romulo Danglose, who was just relieved as OlC^chief of police of this city, has informed the media the city police force is seriously undermanned.
"If we follow the prescribed policeman to population ratio for cities which is one to 500 residents, we lack 57 policemen. Compounding our problem is the wide area of the city," Danglose said.
Danglose admitted that the crime-prone Tabuk-Tuguegarao and the Tabuk-Roxas highways are the two main headaches of city law enforcers and are ruining the city in the eyes of businessmen and even ordinary commuters even as he expressed the hope that the new police provincial director will prioritize these highways.
Police Senior Superintendent Maximo Valiente assumed as Kalinga's police director last November 9. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW, Nov. 25, 2007
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