CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija – The
newly installed station commander of the local police here has deployed 90% of
his men in this city’s streets to increase police visibility and to serve as a
deterrent against crimes.
Police
Superintendent Joselito Villarosa said a total of 130 lawmen are now patrolling
various areas of the city, including far-flung areas to enable communities to
have ready access to police assistance.
Villarosa,
who assumed his post only this month, said that the deployment of lawmen in the
streets is part of the anti-crime action plan codenamed JAY VERGARA which he
laid out for the city’s law enforcers.
Villarosa
explained that the scheme is an acronym named after Mayor Julius Cesar “Jay” Vergara.
J stands for Junior police accreditation and utilization, A for activation of
police community precincts (PCPs), Y for youth training on water safety and
rescue (WASAR) and first aid, V for visibility of police officer, E for
employment of special operations teams, R for reorganization of barangay
tanods, G for green police utilization, A for adoption of Friends of COPS
concept, R for retraining of traffic aides and
A for advancement of police personnel.
Villarosa
said under J of the program, around 100 junior policemen and interns will be
accredited as force multipliers while under the first A, 20-footer movable PCPs
will move around remote areas to further increase police visibility.
He said that at
present, lawmen in the city are mostly concentrated in the urban barangays.
Under Y of the
program, a group of seven youths will be trained in WASAR and first aid to
lessen their dependence on policemen during calamities.
He said two
teams of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) will be created and scour both
urban and rural areas to counter the notorious riding-in-tandem crime groups
under the E component.
Under the first
R, six barangay tanods per barangay will be trained on how to use their batons
and how to write in their barangay blotters while under G, policemen will plan
20 trees per barangay per two weeks in coordination with the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources.
He said this is
part of the core values of the Philippines
wherein they are trained to be “Maka-Diyos (God-centered)” and “Maka-kalikasan”
(Environmentally oriented).
Under the second
A, Villarosa said the local police will tap the assistance of the Kabalikat
civic group and other organizations in helping advance police-initiated activities
in the city.
Under the second
R, the 34 traffic aides will be retrained and its ranks will be beefed up by an
additional 30 traffic enforcers while under the third A, seminars on
intelligence gathering and build-up, VIP security, investigation and peace and
order will be conducted periodically.
