NOPPO rating improves

The performance evaluation rating of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office has improved from being last among the six police provincial offices in Western Visayas in the third quarter of 2006, to second in the fourth quarter of last year, police records show.

Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco, who assumed the NOPPO command from Senior Supt. Charles Calima in September last year, said the Negros Occidental police ranked second to Iloilo in the performance rating.

Franco said the Negros Occidental police also placed number one in the aspect of operations among the nine major police units in Region 6.

Police records indicate that Calima was still the provincial director of Negros Occidental in the third quarter of 2006, when NOPPO ranked last in the performance rating.

PNP units in Western Visayas are rated quarterly for their performance in the aspects of community relations, intelligence, operations, management of personnel, and logistics, among others.*GPB

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PUJ driver knifed by passenger

A jeepney driver was stabbed and injured by his passenger at San Juan-San Sebastian streets in Brgy. 13, Bacolod City at about 8:30 p.m. Monday.

Jonathan Buatag Baja, 43, of Purok Natures, Brgy. Alijis, Bacolod City was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital with a stab wound on his right knee allegedly inflicted by Roger Guillera Burdas, 35, police reports said.

Burdas, of San Juan-Rosario streets, Brgy. 14, was arrested by PO1 Rey Escañan and his companions, from the Bacolod City Mobile Group.

Recovered from Burdas was a 6-inch stainless steel knife.

Burdas, who was also rushed to the hospital with head injuries, was positively identified by Baja as the one who stabbed him, police reports said. The motive of the stabbing is still being investigated by the police, reports also said.*DMG

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