New PNP director vows to end gambling in Ifugao

By Vency D. Bulayungan

LAGAWE, Ifugao—The new Ifugao provincial police director has vowed to stop to all forms of gambling in towns.

               

In a radio interview in the daily program “Humangan with PIA,” Sup.  Ramil Saculles, said, “We are mandated by law and our office does  not to allow illegal activities including gambling to proliferate in our area of responsibility,”.

               

He said his first order to the 11 municipal police stations in the province was to monitor and put an end to  illegal gambling, which the provincial board  earlier noted   in three major towns of Lagawe, Lamut and Kiangan. 

               

He called urged local officials and the public to cooperate with authorities to stop  gambling which Saculles noted as the cause of  crimes such as theft.

               

“People tend to steal in order to have money to gamble,” he said.

               

Saculles urged organizations such as women’s groups to be active in the crusade. “People tend to give respect to this sector because if women talk people listen,” he said.

               

Prior to his assignment here, Saculles, 43, had been assigned in different Cordillera provinces such as Abra,  Benguet, Kalinga and at the  Cordillera  Regional Police Office.