MARCHING ORDERS TO NEW P.D.  LINGAYEN—The newly designated police provincial director in an officer-in-charge capacity hardly warmed his seat when he received his marching orders or the improvement of peace and order in the province from Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr.: Prioritize campaign vs. illegal drugs and solve killings by…

DAGUPAN Mayor Belen Fernandez warned that the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) risks facing a possible suit from the city government if it ignores her letter dated December 27, 2013 ordering the company to terminate their contract for the controversial electric meter located in the premises of the former MC Adore…

MEMBERS of the Pangasinan police force who were randomly chosen for a job aptitude test administered by the National Police Commission (Napolcom) scored low with just a 30 percent passing rate among the 300 examinees. Lawyer Monday Samson, Napolcom provincial director, said this means that while policemen in the province…

ROSALES—Members of three farmer cooperatives in Pangasinan are ready to testify before the January 22 Senate hearing and identify the source of the smuggled rice that they are selling. Rosendo So, founding chairman of the Abono party-list based here, said he has already talked to the cooperatives and has convinced…

ALL’s well that ends well between a land owner and some 50 informal settlers in Sitio Suit, Barangay Pugaro after Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez interceded last Friday in their decade-old dispute that already led to the filing of counter-court suits. The informal settlers who settled in a private property were…

DISCONNECTION OF ELECTRIC METER MAYOR Belen Fernandez is not keen on meeting with officials of the Dagupan Electric Corporation to discuss her request to terminate the electric meter registered under the city’s name located at the former MC Adore building. In a telephone interview with The PUNCH Thursday, Fernandez hinted…

THE police in Pangasinan has been without a provincial director, a permanent commanding officer, for three weeks now. Members of the provincial board are enraged by the situation and are considering taking “drastic action”, including bringing the matter to President Benigno Aquino III. “Imagine a first class province with almost…

LINGAYEN—The Pangasinan Mayors League is set to craft a resolution asking the Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, the Interior and Local Government Secretary and President Benigno Aquino III to set into motion the process for appointing a provincial police director. Dasol Mayor Noel Nacar, the league president, said the 44…