BCPO gets 43 add’l cops

Forty-three more policemen from the Regional Public Safety Battalion arrived at the Bacolod City Police Office, at Magsaysay Street, Brgy. Taculing in Bacolod, yesterday.

The policemen, composed of six police commissioned officers with the rank of police inspectors, were added to the 627 force of the BCPO, Supt. Jefferson Descallar, deputy city director for operations, said yesterday.

Descallar said the 37 police non-commissioned officers, with the rank of Police Officer 1, sent by the Police Regional Office 6 from the RPSB, will be assigned to stations and offices of the BCPO.

Those assigned in police stations will perform beat patrols to beef up police visibility in the city, Descallar said.

He said that police inspectors Armilyn Vargas, Elmer Bonilla, Ray Cordero, Richard Lao, Stephen Boniba, and Wilfredo Benoman, will be designated as deputy chiefs in offices of the BCPO.

The BCPO now has 670 personnel, Descallar said, and although it is not yet the ideal number of policemen for the total population of Bacolod, they will maximize their men to be able to cope with their duties.*SGG

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IN BACOLOD
Police validating presence
of organized burglary group

The Bacolod City Police Office Intelligence Branch is validating the reported presence of a notorious organized group allegedly burglarizing vehicles in Bacolod City.

Supt. Jefferson Descallar, deputy city director for operations, said yesterday that this was after the sports utility vehicle of a churchgoer was burglarized at San Sebastian-Lacson streets in Brgy. 37, Bacolod, Sunday.

Descallar said the suspects may be the same personalities who had ransacked several vehicles in the city before.

He said the police is validating whether the suspected thieves are from Negros or not, and if they have contacts in Bacolod, from whom they had asked for information on where they could ransack vehicles.

The car burglary near the Trinity Christian Church in Brgy. 37, with the owner losing about P8,900 in gadget and clothes, is the first incident recorded this year in Bacolod, Descallar said.

He is appealing to the public to avoid leaving valuable things in vehicles, and that they must install alarm systems on their cars, and park them in places where people or security guards can see them.*SGG

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‘Drug peddler’
apprehended

A suspected drug peddler was arrested yesterday by the police during a buy-bust operation at Zone 4, Brgy. 6 in Victorias City, Negros Occidental.

Supt. Santiago Rapiz, Victorias police chief, identified the arrested suspect as Jerry Magallanes, 35, of Zone 5 in the same barangay.

Rapiz said the arrest of Magallanes yielded a sachet of suspected shabu, P300 in marked money, two cellular phones and P1,350 in cash alleged to be proceeds from the sale of prohibited drugs.

Magallanes is now detained at the Victorias police lock-up cell, pending the filing of charges against him.*GPB

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