LINGAYEN–The police have launched the Police Integrated Patrol System (PIPS), a new tactic intended to help stop the rising crime incidents around the province.

PIPS involves intensifying police checkpoints and increased mobile and foot patrols for more police visibility, especially in crime-prone and population convergence areas.

PIPS was designed during a command conference on Feb. 7, which was called by Police Provincial Director Rosueto Ricaforte and attended by Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Franklin Bucayu.

The command conference came a day after another barangay official, councilwoman Candida Posadas of Barangay Quintong in San Carlos City, was gunned down.

At the same time, Superintendent Paquito Navarete, deputy director for operations, said the two-strike policy, which calls for the automatic relief of chiefs of police on whose area two unsolved shooting incidents occurred in a month, is still in effect.

The two-strike policy was recently applied on the chief of police of San Fabian, Chief Inspector Abubakar Mangelen Jr., following the slaying of the barangay chairman of Tokoc, Arsenio Bucao, last Jan. 20 and a fisherman two days later.

Navarete said the suspect in the slaying of Bucao has already been identified and charged although he is still at-large.

Last year, several barangay chairmen in the province were gunned down but the perpetrators of these crimes have yet to be identified and arrested.

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