San Carlos PNP
wins five awards

The police station of San Carlos City bagged five of the 12 awards in the search for outstanding policemen and police units in Negros Occidental for 2006, in line with the 16th founding anniversary of the Philippine National Police.

The Valladolid Police Station headed by Senior Inspector Rico Santotome got three major awards. The awardees are the San Carlos City Police Station - City Police Station of the Year, Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz - Senior Police Commissioned Officer of the Year, Senior Inspector Victorino Romanillos - Junior PCO of the Year, SPO2 Mae Darroca - Women's and Children Concerned Desk PNCO of the Year, PO3 Michael Angelo Junco - Junior PNCO for Operation.

De la Paz, Romanillos, Junco and Darroca are members of the San Carlos City Police Station. Other awardees are Valladolid Police Station - Municipal Police Station of the Year, SPO4 Vicente Gallos - Senior PNCO of the Year, PO2 Jessica Estandarte - Policewoman of the Year, PO3 Juvy Yanson - Best Junior PNCO for Administration, 612nd Provincial Mobile Group - PMG of the Year, Renato Navares and Maureen Talorong - best Non-Uniformed Personnel for Administration and Operation, respectively.

Gallos and Estandarte are presently assigned at the Valladolid Police Station, which bested 17 other municipal police stations in Negros Occidental in the 2006 Performance Evaluation Rating Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, assisted by Rep. Jose Carlos Lacson, will also distribute plaques of recognition to Governor Joseph Maranon, Board Member Francis Gerald Tuvilla and city mayors of Talisay, Cadiz, Silay, Sagay, San Carlos, Victorias and Kabankalan, and municipal mayors of La Castellana,Valladolid, Calatrava Binalbagan and Councilor Narciso Javelosa Sr., in recognition of their support for the peace and order campaign of NOPPO.*GPB

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'Beltran detention
an injustice'

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan condemned the continued detention of Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran that they call illegal, a Bayan press release said.

"Beltran's detention is the height of injustice and goes against everything that People Power stood for. He is a reminder to the world of how repressive the Arroyo government is," Bayan-Negros secretary-general Felipe Levy Gelle Jr. said.

The lawmaker, who has been detained for a year now, was arrested at the height of the implementation of Presidential Proclamation 1017 that placed the country under a state of national emergency. The International Parliamentarians Union has called for his release.

The press release also said that the administration of President Gloria Arroyo should be blamed for the current plight of Beltran who was charged with rebellion along with soldiers allegedly involved in a coup plot to unseat her.*

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Peanut vendor knifed dead

A peanut vendor was stabbed dead while her husband was injured allegedly inflicted by two unidentified persons in Bagong Dalan, Prk. Kingfisher, Brgy. 16, Bacolod City at about 3:30 a.m. yesterday.

Killed on the spot was Marlyn Onsiano, 42, of Brgy. Carol-an, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, who sustained multiple stab wounds on her back, neck and arms, police reports said.

Her husband Auro, 46, was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital with stab wounds on his back and arms, police reports also said.

Case investigator SPO1 Mario Ecostan, Police Station 1, yesterday told the DAILY STAR, the couple was on their way to collect money from their peanut customers at the Bacolod Libertad Market when a certain "Bong-bong", 20 and a 16-year-old boy. Auro Onsiano said the suspects stabbed him several times and took his wallet containing about P30,000. He said his wife attempted to escape but was chased and killed by the suspects.

Ecostan said the couple was temporarily staying with the younger Onsiano's cousin. He said they have the identities of the suspects, but they are still investigating the case. Robbery is the angle being eyed by the police as the motive of the stabbing, Ecostan said. He said he is appealing to the suspects to surrender to the police to lessen the weight of the charges to be filed against them.*Catherine Malimbang

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