MERCED WARNS
Cops to strictly implement
'no plate, no travel' policy

Supt. Pedro Merced, Bacolod City Police officer-in-charge, yesterday warned motorists to be sure that the plate numbers of their vehicles are in place, especially the Bacolod City police office members and local government employees, to avoid being penalized.

Merced said the "No plate, no travel policy" will be strictly implemented in Bacolod City, as ordered by Secretary Angelo Reyes of the Department of Interior and Local Government.

He said he has ordered a check on the vehicles of the Bacolod police to ensure that they have plate numbers, and set examples to the public. He said vehicles of the local government employees are not exempted from the policy.

Meanwhile, Merced warned tricycle drivers to refrain from passing Araneta and Lacson streets until their franchises are issued. He said he has not yet received official data on the number of the tricycles intercepted and impounded by the Bacolod police in simultaneous and successive night operations.

He said he will coordinate with the Bacolod Traffic Authority and Councilor Dindo Ramos, Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee chairman on transportation and traffic, to discuss the issuance of franchise to tricycle drivers.

The franchise specifies the routes and areas where the tricycle drivers can travel and identifies the allowed number of units, Merced said. With the implementation of this new system, Merced said he believes crime incidents in the city will be reduced and prevented. It will also simplify the work of the police and the public, he added.

RESHUFFLING

Meanwhile, Merced said the BCPO had a minor reshuffling of policemen after Senior Insp. Jonathan Lorilla returned to police service after his 3-month study where he took the Public Safety Officer Basic Course at the Regional Training School 7 in Apas, Cebu City. Effective yesterday, Inspector Cesarlin Delubio, station commander of Police Precinct 10, will be transferred to the Negros Occidental Police Office and his post will be occupied by Insp. Adonis Rosales, station commander of Police Precinct 6, Merced said.

Lorilla, a former station commander of Police Precinct 6, will re-occupy his position, Merced added.*DMG

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Turnover of command rites
at 6th RMG, Sagay PNP today

The 6th Regional Mobile Group and the Sagay City Police Station will have new commanders when Region 6 police director Doroteo Reyes installs Supt. Rene Aspera as 6th RMG director, in a turnover ceremonies today at Camp Aniceto Lacson in Victorias City.

Aspera, police chief of Roxas City, will replace Supt. Pedro Merced who was recently designated as officer-in-charge of the Bacolod City Police Office.

On the same day, Reyes will also officiate at the turnover of Sagay City police command from Supt. Norberto Boston to Chief Inspector William Señoron. Boston will take over from Señoron as director of the 2nd Provincial Mobile Group.

Senior Supt. Charles Calima, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, said the appointment of Señoron as incoming Sagay police chief has been approved by Mayor Leo Rafael Cueva.

Aside from Boston and Señoron, other police officers assigned at the Negros Occidental police who have new assignments are Senior Inspector Jose Labuyo - 4th PMG, Inspector Romeo Leyte - Toboso, Inspector Oscar Monterroyo - Ilog, Inspector Gil Flores - Candoni.

Inspector Hernani Kosca, outgoing Candoni police chief, meanwhile, is scheduled for schooling for career advancement.*GPB

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Minor, 3 others
nabbed for drugs

A 15-year-old boy and three others were nabbed in simultaneous operations of the Bacolod City Anti-Illegal Drug Special Operation Task Group operatives in Purok Sigay, Brgy. 2, Bacolod City Monday.

The minor, whose name is being withheld by the DAILY STAR, and Larry Andrade Tubesa, 36, married, of Zone 1, Calong-Calong, Brgy. Singcang-Airport and Noel Jason were nabbed in a stakeout operation in Brgy. 2 from 1:45 to 2:25 p.m. of the same day, police reports said.

Recovered from the minor was an elongated sachet of suspected shabu, which, he claimed, was only handed to him by an unidentified person while he was standing in the area. The police also recovered sachets of suspected shabu from Tubesa and Jason, police reports said.

Meanwhile, Ryan Canlas Aguirre, 18, single, of Purok Sigay, Brgy. 2, was also nabbed by the Bacolod drug operatives after he handed a sachet of suspected shabu to a police-poseur buyer in a buy-bust operation in the barangay at about 2:15 p.m. Monday, police reports said.

Recovered from him was P100 in marked money and six elongated sachets of suspected shabu.

The four were detained in the lock-up cell of Bacolod police office for violations of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002, police reports also said.*DMG

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