Dagupan Police Station eyed as one of country’s model

By October 21, 2008Headlines, News

PNP Chief Director General Jesus Verzosa vowed to make the Dagupan City Police station as one of the model stations in the country.

“We hope that in the future, this police station would become a model station project,” he said as he led the laying of the cornerstone and ground-breaking for the P14-million building.

The new station will rise on government-owned land formerly occupied by the Philippine National Red Cross and the Pangasinan Teachers’ Memorial.

Also in the groundbreaking rites were Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, members of the city council, Supt. Mariano Luis Verzosa, chief of police, Police Provincial Director Percival Barba, Police Regional Director Chief Supt. Luizo Ticman and other police directors who accompanied Verzosa.

Verzosa, a native of Dasol town and lived in Dagupan when he was two years old, said one of the priorities of the PNP’s Project Monitoring Office, where he was once an executive director, is to establish model police station nationwide.

Three model station projects namely Marikina City Police Office in Manila, Aklan Police Provincial Office in the Visayas, and the Marawi City Police Office in Mindanao, have already been built.

“I hope that with the cooperation between the local police and the local government, we can establish and put up a model police station project here,” Verzosa said.

As a model police station, Dagupan will receive additional facilities like patrol cars, and computers. It will also have an opportunity to receive foreign assistance from donor countries in form of special training for policemen.

The model station project has two main components, the institutional development and citizen empowerment, he said.—LM

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