BARANGAY CONTRA-DRUGS — Self-confessed drug users and pushers in Barangay Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan City sign pledges promising government authorities that they will henceforth reform and stop their drug habit “at their own free will,” but the signed ‘surrender’ documents are deemed worthless by police unless the signatories do present themselves personally…
TO COPS: DO IT OR SHIP OUT POLICEMEN in Pangasinan, as in other parts of the country, have been given only three months to clear the province of illegal drugs, or the chiefs of police as well as the police provincial director will be relieved. The six-month deadline was given by President Rodrigo…
FOUR suspected drug pushers in Dagupan City Police’s watch list were shot dead, three of them in a shootout with policemen, in three separate incidents in the city in two successive days starting July 4. The campaign against illegal drugs in the city has since intensified after President Duterte was sworn in. The latest to die in…
ANTI-DRUG TASK FORCE MEMBERS of the Anti-illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (AIDSTG) composed of policemen selected from various units in Pangasinan, recently organized to man the frontline in the campaign against illegal drugs, was ordered last Thursday, July 7, to take drug tests to determine if any of them are drug-users. This was bared by Supt. Jackie…
WAR VS ILLEGAL DRUGS THE campaign contra illegal drugs in in the province shifted to high gear since President Rodrigo R. Duterte took his oath last June 30. —————————————————————————————- UPDATE: Eighteen more drug personalities surrendered on July 7 in various towns of Pangasinan, according to a police report. Those who…
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office has a new officer-in-charge, the 9th appointee over a 7-year period! P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Oliver Lee succeeds P/Sr. Superintendent Edgar Alan O. Okubo, who was Acting Provincial Director of Pangasinan for over six months from January 7 to June 30, 2016. LEE Lee, member of PMA Tanglaw Diwa…
LINGAYEN–The office of the Provincial Prosecutor has recommended the filing of information before the Regional Trial Court (RTC) for the crime of libel against former Manila Economic Cooperation Office (MECO) chairman Amadeo Perez Jr. The recommendation, signed on June 21, 2016 by Senior Asst. Provincial Prosecutor Raul B. Campos and approved by Provincial Prosecutor Abraham L. Ramos II, was made upon completing the evaluation of…
URDANETA CITY—The 115 uniformed and non-uniformed personnel of the Urdaneta City Police Station (UCPS) who were surprised by a mandatory drug testing Thursday, July 7, felt relieved on learning that no one was found positive of drug-use. P/Supt. Jeff Fanged, chief of UCPS, said this is the station’s initial response to the call of the…
FOR SERIOUS DISHONESTY THE Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the dismissal from service of two employees of the provincial government, both of whom are employees of the Manaoag Community Hospital. Dismissed were Jessie O. Fabia and Richelle O. Fernandez who were found by the Ombudsman to be administratively liable for…
AFTER the election of officers of the new Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Dagupan, the majority composed of seven councilors – against four in the minority – asserted its numbers in cornering all the major committees. However, the approval of their internal rules adopted during their first regular session on July 5 was deferred…
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