NOVEL WALK-FOR-A-CAUSE MANGALDAN— A walk-for-a-cause was recently held in the town. But it was not your usual ‘cause’ and the participants were not the usual crowd. The Mangaldan police organized the Lakad-Kontra-Droga last Sunday and the participants were the police themselves, barangay officials and the self-confessed drug pushers and users who surrendered! P/Supt….

IN COPS’ DEFENSE LINGAYEN— Amid growing public skepticism of police claims of defensive actions in justifying the deaths of drug personalities during buy-bust and legitimate operations, Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil, a retired police general, spoke in defense of the policemen. “Policemen should be able to defend themselves when they…

THE Balon Dagupan Children’s Choir (BDCC), organized by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, won the Malaysia International Children Choral Festival 2016, besting 15 other contenders from different countries held last July 16 in Selangor, Malaysia. BDCC received the Gold A Grade Award, the highest recognition accorded a choral group for outstanding performance; the Shah Alam…

REGION’S SCORECARD ON WAR VS. DRUGS CAMP BGEN OSCAR M FLORENDO – Some 4,186 drug personalities have surrendered and 228 persons involved in illegal drugs were arrested in Region 1 from July 1 to 12. In a report from the Police Regional Office 1, the 4,186 drug personalities surrendered in…

WAR VS. ILLEGAL DRUGS INTENSIFIES LINGAYEN—The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) is set to launch Oplan DIGUNG next week to further intensify its all-out war versus illegal drugs, even as 1,059 drug personalities have surrendered to various police stations since July 1. A week earlier, PPPO acting police director P/Sr….

UNCLOS FAVORABLE RULING ON WPS INFANTA—While families of fishermen who fish in Scarborough Shoal hailed the landmark decision of the UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Laws of the Sea) Permanent Court of Arbitration that ruled in favor of the Philippines, there is doubt in their minds that they are finally…

LINGAYEN—The drug testing for almost 2,000 police personnel of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) in 48 police stations in the province is almost complete. P/Supt. Jackie Candelario, information officer of PPPO, said only police officers on schooling status comprise the four percent that remain untested. Meanwhile, the result of…

MANGALDAN—What policeman would surrender his own brother for being a drug user? The town’s police chief here not only arranged for his younger brother’s surrender but detained him as well to set the example that no one will be spared in his police station’s anti-illegal drugs operations. P/Supt. Benjamin Ariola,…

SECOND District Board Member Raul Sison found himself invoking the power and authority of a citizen’s arrest when he caught and confronted a group having a pot session in a house in Barangay Talogtog, Mangatarem town. Mr. Sison said he responded to a report from Barangay Captain Glen Tamondong seeking…