Walk the talk on drugs

 WITHOUT a doubt, the priorities identified by P/Sr. Superintendent Belli Tamayo as the new Officer-in Charge at the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office, sit squarely with the concerns of the populace.

In particular, the continued proliferation of illegal drugs in barangays and campuses has made many parents worry greatly about their children becoming drug users or worse, victims of drug-using rapists or desperate and homicidal persons. So far the campaign of the provincial government and the police have only yielded modest results that cannot be viewed as dramatic enough that will lead to more drug–free communities. In fact, to date no other town except Sto. Tomas, can claim that it is now drug-free since the Guv Spines declared war contra illegal drugs last year.

To the credit of Mr. Tamayo, he impressed upon the provincial officials he is not going to merely pay lip service to his mission reporting that he has already directed the province’s town police chiefs to identify their 10 most known notorious drug dealers in their communities and seek to arrest at least one every month. That’s certainly impressive for starters, strategizing by objective.

And we’re happy to note that Mr. Tamayo is comfortable achieving results by objective. In this regards, may we suggest one objective: To make at least one city and one town drug-free every 3 months.

Meanwhile, the provincial board or Guv Spines can also start walking the talk by considering putting up a cash incentive program for our police stations that succeed in making their areas of jurisdiction drug-free. A monthly additional cash allowance of P1000 per personnel for the town that continues to be drug free for as long as it takes should set the tone. Once drugs make a comeback, the allowances are stopped.

Just thinking out of the box, just like Mr. Tamayo. Think about it.

 

 Rufus roughs it out

RUFUS Rodriguez, the representative from Cagayan de Oro who chairs the House committee handling the BBL (Bangsamoro Basic Law) to govern a separate Muslim territory in Mindanao, is now the butt of jokes.  Reason? He abandoned his hard stance against the BBL after a weekend chat with President Aquino, a staunch supporter of the BBL cause.

At the resumption of the House hearing, Rufus reeked of vacillation when he weakly defended against assaults on the BBL after the Aquino-Rodriguez one-on-one at Malacanang.  Did the President extract some compromise from Rufus, a deal beneficial for the Mindanao alderman – to make him a part of the senatorial slate of Mr. Aquino’s Liberal Party in 2016 in exchange for a watered down BBL that was subsequently carried out by a landslide vote?

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