By Dexter A. See
BAGUIO CITY– The local police office here recently formed a specialized tracker team to address increasing crime rate like robbery and other cases involving crimes against property.
Senior Supt. David Q. Lacdan, BCPO director, said the group composed of elite law enforcers, will give special attention to rising crime rate in the city with the onset of the Yuletide season.
Police records showed there were 100 incidents of theft and 87 robbery cases in the city in two months.
However, physical injuries topped the crimes but theft and robbery incidents came second and third in ranking crimes.
For the same two-month period, police arrested 74 suspects involved in the crimes against property.
Ten persons were arrested for involvement in “salisi” and nine for theft.
Twenty four were nabbed for robbery with violence, three for robbery in band, one for robbery with force upon things, and 55 for pick pocketing.
Out of the total number of arrested individuals, 59 cases were filed in court while the rest were either amicably settled or eventually dropped since victims refuse to file cases.
Lacdan said victims did not usually pursue cases against suspects as long as they recovered the property stolen or recieved the amount corresponding to the value of the property taken from them.
He added police are also constrained not to file cases because of insufficiency of pieces of evidence and since witnesses don’t testify.
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