Tabuk City, Kalinga – Fed up with what they call the inaction of the local police in the face of surging criminal activities in the city in recent months, the mayors of this province have called on Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Calderon to revamp the local police force.
Through its resolution No. 01, Series of 2007, the local chapter of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP), the organization of mayors in the country, asked the PNP chief to “immediately revamp the PNP Kalinga for their (sic) inability to apprehend perpetrators, unabated criminalities, series of untoward incidents and their (sic) seemingly lukewarmness (sic) to oversee the welfare of the people they claim to serve and protect.”
The resolution said that in the first half of the 2007, a series of akyat bahay incidents and broad daylight hold-ups victimizing business establishments and gasoline stations right in the center of the city and also highway robberies took place “with the police unable to thwart and abort these series of untoward incidents nor demonstrated any capability of apprehending the probable perpetrators.”
The mayors said that will happens in the center of the city “mirrors the prevailing situation in the Province of Kalinga.”
In a press conference preceding the oath taking ceremonies of the newly elected officers of the local LMP on August 10, incoming president and Tabuk City mayor Camilo Lammawin, Jr. informed the media that majority of the mayors of the province have signified their desire for their chiefs of police to be replaced and likewise for police personnel who are more of a liability to be transferred to other places.
During the same press conference, Kalinga provincial board member Eduardo Buliyat said that he intends to sponsor a similar resolution in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan considering that the local police seem to be inutile.
Buliyat cited as example a criminal incident which took place in Magabbanon, Cudal, this city, which he did not specify where the perpetrator is a known ex-convict and also the killing of a Kalinga LGU employee which happened near the gate of the provincial headquarters of the PNP. There was no police action on both cases, Buliyat claimed.
Outgoing president and incoming LMP-Kalinga vice-president Allen Jesse Mangaoang, Balbalan mayor, said that what Kalinga needs is a strong-willed and non-nonsense police leadership.
Lammawin added that the police leader should not only have balls but knows how to strategize for the prevention of crime, “not just a reactionary.” **Estanislao Albano, Jr. - Zigzag Weekly, August 19, 2007
Through its resolution No. 01, Series of 2007, the local chapter of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP), the organization of mayors in the country, asked the PNP chief to “immediately revamp the PNP Kalinga for their (sic) inability to apprehend perpetrators, unabated criminalities, series of untoward incidents and their (sic) seemingly lukewarmness (sic) to oversee the welfare of the people they claim to serve and protect.”
The resolution said that in the first half of the 2007, a series of akyat bahay incidents and broad daylight hold-ups victimizing business establishments and gasoline stations right in the center of the city and also highway robberies took place “with the police unable to thwart and abort these series of untoward incidents nor demonstrated any capability of apprehending the probable perpetrators.”
The mayors said that will happens in the center of the city “mirrors the prevailing situation in the Province of Kalinga.”
In a press conference preceding the oath taking ceremonies of the newly elected officers of the local LMP on August 10, incoming president and Tabuk City mayor Camilo Lammawin, Jr. informed the media that majority of the mayors of the province have signified their desire for their chiefs of police to be replaced and likewise for police personnel who are more of a liability to be transferred to other places.
During the same press conference, Kalinga provincial board member Eduardo Buliyat said that he intends to sponsor a similar resolution in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan considering that the local police seem to be inutile.
Buliyat cited as example a criminal incident which took place in Magabbanon, Cudal, this city, which he did not specify where the perpetrator is a known ex-convict and also the killing of a Kalinga LGU employee which happened near the gate of the provincial headquarters of the PNP. There was no police action on both cases, Buliyat claimed.
Outgoing president and incoming LMP-Kalinga vice-president Allen Jesse Mangaoang, Balbalan mayor, said that what Kalinga needs is a strong-willed and non-nonsense police leadership.
Lammawin added that the police leader should not only have balls but knows how to strategize for the prevention of crime, “not just a reactionary.” **Estanislao Albano, Jr. - Zigzag Weekly, August 19, 2007
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