THE ‘Big One’ scenario that the Dagupan City government continues to consider is a magnitude 8.2 earthquake that can result in a seven-meter high tsunami waves. Meliquin Bauzon, head of the city’s Public Alert Response and Management Center (PARMC), said the 1990 earthquake’s 7.8 magnitude gave the city a lot…

CONTRA ILLEGAL DRUGS, GAMBLING LINGAYEN— The Pangasinan police has never been busier fighting two fronts and keeping a scorecard in the province in its war on illegal drug trade and gambling. P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Lee, acting provincial director, reported the arrest of 199 persons in 96 operations on illegal gambling that…

LINGAYEN–The fight against all forms of criminality in Pangasinan, particularly in the war on drugs, has been making headway since July 1, 2016. This was the assessment of P/Senior Supt. Ronald Oliver Lee, acting police director, who maintains that continuous and aggressive implementation of police operations since Duterte administration took…

LINGAYEN – An intensified peace and order program for the province can be expected with the approval of the Peace and Order Public Safety Plan by the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) and Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Council (PADAC) last Monday, March 13. Department of Interior and Local Government Provincial…

ONE-TIME, BIG TIME THIRTY-nine persons were arrested (33 for illegal drugs and six for illegal possession of firearms) when the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) implemented One-Time Big-Time (OTBT) Operation in 19 towns in Pangasinan on March 9 in launching Project ‘Double Barrel Reloaded’ (DBR) campaign. OTBT was launched a day…

“WE’RE back! Operation Double Barrel Reloaded is on in Pangasinan.” This was the terse message of P/Sr. Supt. Ronald OIiver Lee, Pangasinan’s acting police provincial director, to drug pushers and addicts even as he expressed optimism that the clergy will respond positively to his invitation to participate in some planned PDEA-police…

LINGAYEN–Less than a week after the Philippine National Police (PNP) was given the go-signal by President Duterte to resume anti-drug operations, nine high value targets (HVT) were arrested in Pangasinan, six of them suspected to be involved in the operation of a drug den in Sta. Barbara. Operatives of the…

WHILE other police stations in the province have actively resumed operations against illegal drugs, the Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) has chosen to wait for clear directives before launching Double Barrel Reloaded in the city. P/Chief Inspector Marcos Anod, deputy police chief, said the directive on the Double Barrel Alpha:…

“THEY may have won but it does not mean that they are right.” This was the reaction of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop and Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines president Socrates Villegas after congressmen voted 217-54 Tuesday night on final reading the bill reimposing the death penalty for drug-related crimes. He said the…