More cops assigned to patrol duties
95:5 RATIO FOR POLICE PRESENCE
COMMUNITIES in Pangasinan will soon be seeing more uniformed policemen patrolling their streets.
This was the assurance given by P/Senior Supt. Rolie Saltat, officer-in-charge at the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, to the sangguniang panlalawigan as he cited a new directive from the national headquarters to assign at least 95 percent of the entire 2,263 police personnel in the province to patrol duties, and only five percent will stay inside stations to do administrative work.
“While the new policy might affect the administrative capability of police stations, it will also improve their crime prevention activities,” explained Saltat.
A new innovation he introduced since becoming OIC provincial director in July this year is the Bike Patrol or police on patrol in the streets riding on bicycles which Saltat said has complemented the police mobile patrol called Patrol 101.
The bike patrol, composed of policemen trained to patrol on bicycles are able to patrol the remotest sitios which patrol cars cannot reach.
Also in place is the motorized special crime operatives (MOSCO) patrol system to directly address the criminal acts perpetrated by motorcycle-riding hitmen.
Meanwhile, reporting on the peace and order situation in Pangasinan from January to August this year, Saltat cited statistics that showed that crimes against persons increased by 756, from 4, 276 last year to 5,032 this year while crime against property decreased by 379 from 2,635 last year to 2, 265 this year.
Index crime increased this year by 5%, from 6,911 last year to 7,297 while non-index crime increased by 18%, from 7,085 last year to 8,375 this year.
At the same time. Saltat announced that the police confiscated 204 assorted firearms through various police operations like the serving of search warrants, implementation of “Oplan Sita”, checkpoints and other modes of police operations. (Leonardo Micua/Johanne Macob)
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