Senior Supt. Milko Lirazan, 6th Regional Public Safety Battalion director, yesterday said that there is no order yet for him to assume as officer-in-charge of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office.

Lirazan, however, said he was advised by Chief Supt. Cipriano Querol, regional police director of Western Visayas, to finish first the field evaluation and validation of the 6th Regional Public Safety Battalion, which is vying for the national award as best the RPSB unit in the country.

Lirazan said he was told by Querol that, as soon as the evaluation is completed, he must prepare for a new assignment.

Under Lirazan, the 6th RPSB stationed at Camp Alfredo Montelibano Sr. in Bacolod City, is competing for the national award, for the first time in its history.

Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. had earlier said that he wants Supt. Remus Zacharias Canieso, who has been named NOPPO caretaker, to be the permanent provincial police director.

Marañon said he does not need a list of nominees for the new police provincial director, and he is informing the PNP hierarchy of his preference for Canieso, who is from Bacolod City.

Canieso served as police chief of Sagay City, with Maranon as the mayor.

If he is designated as NOPPO officer-in-charge, Lirazan, who is a resident of Bago City, said he will immediately meet and consult with Maranon and other local officials on the peace and order campaign.

Lirazan is a member of the Philippine National Police Academy Class 1983.

A senior police official assigned at the PRO 6 headquarters in Iloilo, yesterday said that Canieso, who is a nephew of former Army chief Lt. Gen. Rodolfo Canieso, is too junior for the position of provincial police director of Negros Occidental.

Meanwhile, Police Director Catalino Cuy, who chaired the Field Evaluation and Validation Team from Camp Crame, yesterday said the fight for the best RPSB unit, among Police Regional Offices 1, 4A and 6, is very close.

Cuy, who is also the PNP Special Action Force director, however, said that 6th RPSB possesses good facilities for training, as he also acknowledged the all-out support extended by the local government units and the community to the police unit.*GPB

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