JONG CADION
Chief of reporters
City Police Chief Inspector Reynaldo Maclang boasted the brilliantly implemented “Mamang Pulis sa Kanto,” a program that enhances police visibility in the streets, has reduced crime rate by 90 percent.
Maclang, in a huddle with MINDANAO MONITOR, said that for June, the police blotter was almost untouched.
“I am very much happy noticing a clean police blotter for three weeks now after we implemented enforce police visibility,” Maclang asserted.
It can be recalled that 20 new policemen were downloaded to the Pagadian City Police Station from the Regional Command-9 (RECOM-9) in Zamboanga City to augment the police force in the city and keep the standard police to population ratio.
The additional policemen were all new graduates led by a PNPA officer, who underwent an orientation for their actual duties in the urban center.
“Observe them, they are friendly, smiling, accommodating, and courteous and well disciplined,” Maclang told this paper.
The additional number of the police was likewise a sort of reinforcement to the local police in assisting the upcoming full swing of the transfer of all regional offices from Zamboanga City.
The additional police strength follows the resolution approved during the joint Regional Development Council and Regional Peace and Order Council meeting last February.
PNP Provincial Director P/SSupt, Ramon Ochotorena readily granted Mayor Samuel Co’s request of detailing additional policemen in the city proper.
Co said he merely wanted that standard police to population ratio be followed in the city, at least one for every one hundred residents, enough for securing the new regional center of Zamboanga Peninsula 24 hours a day, seven days a week.