IN 3RD QUARTER
San Carlos, EB Magalona
PNP offices top performers

The San Carlos City and E.B.Magalona Police Stations topped the performance evaluation rating for the third quarter of 2006 in the city and municipal categories, respectively, in Negros Occidental.

The San Carlos PNP maintained its number one rank among the 12 cities, excluding Bacolod, in the province, while the E.B.- Magalona police eased out the Valladolid PNP from the number one position, which it has held for two consecutive quarters of 2006. The city police station of San Carlos, a consistent awardee in the regional level as best city police station from 2001 to 2005, is commanded by Supt. Ricardo de la Paz.

The E.B. Magalona, headed by Senior Inspector Santiago Rapiz, bagged the municipal police station award in Negros Occidental also for two consecutive years in 2004 and 2005, police records show.

The 612nd Provincial Mobile Group also bested three other PMGs in similar performance evaluation rating which is quarterly conducted by the provincial offices of the Internal Affairs Service and the Negros Occidental police. The police stations of Escalante and Bago also ranked second and third, respectively, in the city category, and Valladolid as well as Manapla in the municipal category.

De la Paz yesterday said the city government of San Carlos through Mayor Eugenio Jose Lacson has earmarked P3.2 million for the ongoing renovation of the police station.

The 31 police stations in Negros Occidental are being rated quarterly on police community relations, operation, intelligence, management of personnel and logistics as well as investigations.*GPB

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Robbery eyed in
death of trike driver

The Bacolod police is eyeing robbery in the death of a tricycle driver whose body was found in a sugarcane field in Purok Sambag, Brgy. Alijis in Bacolod City Wednesday morning.

PO2 Lyndon Ortoño, Precinct 6 case investigator yesterday said initial investigation showed that Joseph Biay, 28, of Purok Paghidaet, Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City was held up by his passengers who had also taken his tricycle.

Ortoño said Biay had been killed in the cane field where his body was found by several workers weeding the field.

The sidecar of Biay's tricycle was recovered by Precinct 6 policemen in Puentebella Subdivision, Brgy. Taculing at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, but his motorcycle was still missing, Ortoño added. Tricycle owner Joel de la Cruz, 46, of Purok Paghidaet, Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City, earlier said he and Biay's uncle positively identified the body at the funeral parlor in Brgy. Alijis Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Bacolod City police director Senior Supt. Pedro Merced yesterday said Biay had no franchise and driver's license which means he was illegally operating in the area. He said he has warned tricycle drivers not to pick up passengers if they have not yet secured franchises.*DMG

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Leads established in heist
at restaurant in Bacolod

Bacolod City police director Senior Supt. Pedro Merced yesterday said they have established leads on the suspects who broke into the Max's Restaurant at Robinson's Place, Bacolod City Tuesday.

Merced said he is not disclosing yet their initial findings as it might hamper their investigation.

He said Senior Insp. Joeresty Coronica, Precinct 3 commander is still investigating the 13 security guards on duty at the time of the robbery, as well as several Max employees. They are also looking into the "inside job" angle, he said.

He said he checked the restaurant Wednesday and believes there could be two or three persons involved with one of them serving as a look-out outside the mall.

He said the damaged steel bar and broken lock of the roll-up doors were found at the exit door of the restaurant.

Unidentified persons broke into the restaurant Wednesday and stole its cash box containing P31,000 in cash, and bank checks worth P30,000, police reports said.*DMG

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Couple nabbed for
holding up Sagay resident

A couple was apprehended by the Bacolod police for allegedly holding up a man from Sagay City, Negros Occidental, at the Bacolod reclamation area in Brgy. 10 at about 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Arrested were Herman Alpigre Manguilimutan and his live-in partner, Dina Perje Fuentes, for allegedly holding up Junnie de la Peña Madoramente, of Brgy. 4, Sagay City, police reports said.

Police investigation showed that Fuentes transacted with Madoramente to have sex in exchange for a certain amount. Madoramente said he was shocked when Manguilimutan approached and choked him, while Fuentes took his wallet containing P250 in cash, police reports said.

Meanwhile, another couple, Robert Montaño Hermoso and Floridel Lamas Vergel, both 29 and residents of Purok Paglaum, Brgy. 17, Bacolod City were arrested by the police for allegedly stealing the Nokia 6070 cellphone of a Victorias resident at Rizal-Gatuslao streets, Bacolod City at about 8:50 p.m. of the same day. PO2 Norman Doromal, a Bacolod Task Force Lawin operative, who was roving in the area at the time, said he caught the two suspects in the act of stealing the cellphone of Phoebe Yudero Okuma, 39, of Brgy. 3, Victorias City, police reports said.

Hermoso and Vergel attempted to escape, but they were intercepted by Doromal. Recovered from them was the complainant's cellphone, police reports added.*DMG

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