2 policemen to remain
in posts pending probe
FOR 'PROTECTING' ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES

Bacolod City Police Office director, Senior Supt. Ronilo Quebrar, yesterday said that the two Police Station 2 officers transferred to the BCPO City Mobile Group will have to stay with their new assignments for now, while the investigation on the allegations against them are still ongoing.

Quebrar said that SPO2 Carlos Sombria and PO1 Felixberto Arsenal will still be detailed at the BCPO-CMG so their activities could be "closely supervised" although nobody has filed a formal complaint against them on the allegations that they are acting as illegal drugs and gambling "protectors."

Quebrar relieved the two from their posts at Police Station 2 on July 27 as the BCPO Intelligence and Investigation Branch started its inquiry on reports that they are protecting illegal activities in Purok Sigay, Brgy. 2, in Bacolod. Police Station 2 commander Rie Gumban has maintained that the accusations against Sombria and Arsenal are not true, adding that the reports may have just been fabricated by those who were affected by their operations against prohibited drugs and gambling in Purok Sigay.*PP

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23 nabbed for loose
guns in 7 months

Twenty-three persons were arrested by the police in 20 operations against loose firearms in Bacolod City during the last seven months of the year, the Philippine National Police said yesterday.

The police also recovered 31 loose firearms and two hand grenades and have filed charges for illegal possession of firearms against the suspects, Chief Inspector Arnel Arpon, Bacolod City Police Office Operations Branch chief, said.

Police records show that there are about 304,262 loose guns nationwide.

BCPO director Senior Supt. Ronilo Quebrar recently called on the public to surrender and register loose guns with the police under the ongoing firearm amnesty of the government.

Under Executive Order No. 585, the public can surrender and register low and high-powered firearms to city, provincial, and regional PNP offices without legal charges, provided that they get permits to transport the guns from their homes to police stations.

The EO allows owners of loose firearms to surrender them and apply for licenses at the PNP, from June 14, 2007 to June 13, 2008, police records showed.*PP

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2 collared for improper
dumping of garbage

Two persons were recently apprehended by the Department of Public Services Enforcement Unit for dumping garbage in front of the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital at 5:30 p.m. and along the Negros Navigation depot in Barangay Mandalagan on July 30.

The act is in violation of City Ordinance No. 310, or the Revised Ecological Solid Waste Management Ordinance of Bacolod, a City Hall press release said.

Arrested by a team led by Wilfredo Geolingo were Dominciano Legada of Purok Paghidaet 2, 1st Street, Brgy. 17, and Romeo Nogales of Purok Langis, Brgy. Banago, both in Bacolod.

The ordinance prohibits the littering, throwing, and dumping of waste matters in public places, and disallows the operating, collecting or transporting equipment in violation of the sanitation operation and other requirements or permits pursuant to Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, the press release said.

The measure also prohibits the open burning of solid waste, the causing or permitting the collection of non-segregated unsorted waste, and squatting in open dumpsites and landfills, among others, the press release added.*

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