NATIONAL LEVEL
Victorias semifinalist
for best police station

After the Victorias City, Negros Occidental police landed in the list of semi-finalists for best city police station nationwide for year 2005, Senior Supt. Modesto Sanson, City police chief, yesterday said Mayor Severo Palanca informed them that the city government plans to purchase four more patrol cars and radio equipment for them this year.

Palanca, assisted by Senior Supt. Isagani Cuevas, deputy regional director for Operations, recently led the inauguration of the newly-completed multi-purpose extension building of the Victorias City Police Station.

Sanson said the Community Police Assistance Center worth P300,000 in Brgy. Gawahon, Victorias City, construction of which was also financed by the city government, is expected to be completed by the end of this month.

The police assistance center, to be manned by Victorias City policemen, is part of the eco-tourism projects of the administration, and aimed at developing the tourism potentials of the barangay.

In 2004, the city police station of Victorias was also adjudged as best city police station in Negros Occidental.

Sanson and four other police non-commissioned officers were also conferred with the Medalya ng Kasanayan on Dec. 29 by the Police Regional Office 6, in recognition of the recent arrest of the number one most-wanted person of Victorias City.*GPB

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Skeleton still unidentified

Bacolod City police director, Supt. Pedro Merced, yesterday said the human skeleton found in the middle of the sugarcane field at Purok Rabadilla, Brgy. Mandalagan, had not been identified as of press time yesterday.

Merced said he is encouraging people whose family members have been missing for a month or more to visit the Bacolod police office and see if they can identify the skeletal remains that appear to be those of a woman.

He said the human skeleton had been examined at the Crime Laboratory yesterday, but the result has not been released yet.

Mandalagan resident Sammy Lorenzo found the human skeleton on Monday when he was about to answer the call of nature in the canefield.

Recovered from the area were a green T-shirt, blue sweatshirt, a red skirt and a pair of step-in slippers. The police also noted that the skeleton had shoulder length hair, police reports said.*DMG

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