Bacoleño knifed dead

A Bacolod resident was stabbed dead allegedly by his two neighbors in Purok Mabinuligon, Brgy. 19, Bacolod City at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Jade Arca Poblacion, of legal age, was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival, with a stab wound in his chest reportedly inflicted by his neighbors Remando Nunala Moises, alias "Toktok", 22, of Sipalay City and Donald Quimbala, alias "Masyong", 33, of Hinoba-an town, in Negros Occidental, police reports said.

Quimbala was also rushed to the CLMMRH with stab wounds in his hand and body allegedly inflicted by the victim. Moises attempted to evade arrest but was intercepted by Precinct 4 policemen in a hot-pursuit operation in Brgy. 30 at about 12:10 a.m. yesterday, police reports said.

Recovered from the scene were 13-inch and 9-inch bladed weapons, police reports said. The motive of the stabbing is still being investigated by Precinct 4 policemen.

Meanwhile, the body of Johnjet Raquinel, 30, single, of Purok Kabukalan, Brgy. Singcang, Bacolod City was found floating in the sea in Brgy. Pta. Taytay yesterday noon, PO3 Jose Roy Militante told the DAILY STAR in a phone interview yesterday. Militante said nearby residents told him that Raquinel was swimming in the sea before his body was found. Recovered on him was a bottle of intoxicating liquor, he said. No foul play was noted in his death, Militante added.*DMG

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Wanted: 3,000 new cops

Qualified residents in Negros Occidental may now apply as new members of the Philippine National Police force.

Newly-designated PNP spokesman Samuel Pagdilao said, Director General Arturo Lomibao has ordered the Directorate for Personnel and Records Management to begin the processing of 3,000 applicants for Police Officer 1.

Lomibao is also expected to lead the blessing of the newly-completed P3 million police station in Binalbagan town, in the province, within this month.

Senior Supt. Pedro Merced, director of the Bacolod City Police Office, yesterday said they are now accepting police applicants at the BCPO headquarters.

Of the 3,000 police recruits, 450 recruitment slots are reserved for women, who now comprise almost nine percent of the entire police force, Pagdilao said.

It was not determined yet how many number of recruits are earmarked for Western Visayas.

Pagdilao, however, said each of the police regional offices was assigned a proportionate number of recruits to be hired based on the obtaining police to population ratio in their respective areas.

Police applicants must be a college graduate and was able to pass the Police Officer 1 entrance examinations, among other requirements.

Assured of sufficient budget from a supplemental P1-billion allotment announced by President Macapagal-Arroyo, Pagdilao said the PNP is also set to purchase 5,000 more handguns and 500 patrol vehicles to augment its existing mobility and firepower requirements.

He added that the new recruits will fill-in the positions vacated by some 2,900 personnel who retired from the service in 2005, and those projected to retire during the 1st semester of 2006.*GPB

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2 Kabankalan
policemen commended

Two police officers of the Theft and Robbery Section of the Kabankalan City Police Station in Negros Occidental were given commendations by Supt. Roderick Augustus Alba, chief of police, recently, a Kabankalan government press release said yesterday.

PO2 Elmer Tad-y Lutao and PO1 Rommel Valdez Taleon were commended for their exemplary actuation, efficiency, loyalty and devotion to duty that resulted in the recovery of 15 truck batteries and two tricycle tire arrows from the possession of Jessie James Magaso, alias "Aming," it also said.

These properties amounting to P17,800 were owned by the city government of Kabanklan and were stolen from the store room of the General Services Office at Cordova Street, the press release said.

The commendations were given by Alba during the flag ceremony held every Monday at the PNP headquarters.

Alba encouraged the police officers to always perform well in all their assigned task, the press release added.*

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