MAKE DRUG LORDS FEAR US — Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. (center) exhorts the province’s law enforcers and operating elements in the campaign against illegal drugs to devise more creative strategies in order to beat the drug lords in their own game, during the Accomplishments, Evaluation and Assessment of the…
DRUGLORDS WORSE THAN MURDERERS GOV. Amado T. Espino Jr. pushed the envelope further in his declared war against illegal drugs in Pangasinan. His unequivocal order to the law enforcers in the province is “to instill fear in the minds of all those involved in illegal drugs by treating them worse…
Guv to cops: Instill fear in drug pushers
LINGAYEN– Of the more than 1,300 barangays of Pangasinan, at least least 322 are considered by the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) as drug affected. This was bared by P/Supt. Benjamin Ariola, chief of the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (PAIDSOTG) during a briefing last week on updates on the…
322 barangays still drug-affected
IS the supply of shabu in Pangasinan tapering down? The Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) believes so. P/Supt. Benjamin Ariola, chief of the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (PAIDSOTG), pointed to the small quantities of illegal drugs in the possession of pushers and users being seized by the police.
Intensified police operations gaining on drug syndicates, say
MALASIQUI—The Office of the Ombudsman absolved eleven incumbent and former officials of the town of the charge of abuse of authority and grave misconduct when it dismissed the case filed against them over the controversial land lease of the local government to the Magic Group of Companies. The resolution was…
Ombudsman dismisses case vs Malasiqui officials
BAYAMBANG—A public hearing on the controversial transfer of the Bayambang Community School that was earlier expected to end in conciliatory tones, ended on a sour note instead. The raucous was triggered by a statement made by former Fifth District Rep. Mark Cojuangco who berated and insulted Municipal Engineer Eddie Melicurio…
Cojuangco hit for insulting town brass
URDANETA CITY—An honest policeman here was commended during the Monday flag raising ceremony of the city government for returning a wallet he found with P15,000 cash, some Hong Kong dollar bills and other documents. P/Senior Police Officer 3 Wilfredo Obrero, 50, married, resident of Barangay Camantiles of this city stood…
Honest cop in Urdaneta cited
FASTER RESPONSE TIME — Members of the Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) and City Action Service Team (CAST) office happily try out the four new motorcycles acquired by the Dagupan City government to help in the campaign to further improve peace and order along the city’s main thoroughfares. The motorcycles are equipped…
FASTER RESPONSE TIME
AN official of the Department of Health (DOH) has assured parents that vaccines being downloaded regularly to Rural Health Units (RHUs) and City Health Offices (CHOs) are safe, and are not expired. This was the assurance of Dr. Ma. Wilda Silva, head of the Family Health Cluster of DOH, during the…
Vaccines for children safe –DOH official
CALASIAO— Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) predicts that Pangasinan’s population will soon reach the 3 million mark and this will be confirmed by the data that will be gathered by PSA Pangasinan office. The data will be culled from responses from households in the province during the mid-decade population census…