CAMP DANGWA, La
Trinidad Benguet – A female cadre of the New People’s Army recently surrendered
to police ending a life of hardship in the mountains after finding true love.
Cordillera police
director ChiefSupt.IsaganiNerez, identified the surenderee as Priscilla Y.
Silot Y Degiawe, 44, native of Lamag, Quirino, Ilocos Sur.
Priscilla reportedly
joined the NPA November 2001 at Lamag and was assigned as medical and finance officer of the Kilusang Larangang
Guerrilla under the Jennifer Maria Carino Command operating in Quirino,
Ilocos Sur area.
She decided to
join the underground because of the harassment she and the members of her
family experienced alleged atrocities from military.
During her stint with
the group, she took several trainings and courses and conducted the same among
the members of the rebel group.
She reportedly participated
in the propaganda/mass work activities to strengthen and expand their mass
base, particularly in places where support was
dwindling.
Since 2011, she left
the group and sought refuge with her siblings because of health problem.
She reportedly communicated
with her comrades but when she transferred to another place she lost
communication with them.
Last year, she fell in
love with a driver and they lived together where she worked as house helper in
Daet, Camarines Norte where her relatives encouraged her to surrender.
Man wanted for drugs cornered
TABUK CITY, Kalinga –
A man wanted for drugs was recently arrested here in Barangay Lacnog.
Provincial police director,
Senior Supt. Victor Wanchakan, identified the suspect as Bonny
Maggongoy Wacnang, 39, farmer and resident of Lacnog.
He was nabbed by the
joint personnel of the Regional Public Safety battalion, Tabuk City Police
Office and members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
Cordillera PNP chief orders rigid security as Yuletide
Season starts
CAMP DANGWA, La
Trinidad, Benguet – Cordillera police director Chief Supt. Isagani R. Nerez
ordered police last week to enhance security operations before, during and
after the observance of the traditional Yuletide Season in the region.
This, as influx of
people is expected in shopping malls, churches, terminals and other public
places.
Millions of catholic
devotees are expected to attend the traditional simbang gabi which will start
Dec. 16 while tourists, balikbayans, and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) will
be coming to the country to visit tourist spots among other places and celebrate
holidays with their families and friends.
Nerez said security
operations were needed as criminals and other lawless elements may take
advantage of this season to conduct their criminal activities.
He said police
presence will be intensified through increased foot and mobile patrol
operations and deployment of route safety marshalls.
Police assistance areas
will also be established in places of convergence.
Nerez said police will
intensify the campaign against loose firearms, illegal discharge of firearms,
and campaign against criminal gangs and personalities.
The public’s social
responsibility and cooperation is very vital in preventing crime in the
community, Nerez said.
He urged the the
public to provide police with relevant
and timely information through social media (Twitter-@PNPCordillera or Facebook
Page- ProProcor, or through the following numbers: Complaint Referral
-094765880 / 09174297628; Regional Tactical Operation Center (074)
422-5515; 09175302679/ 09285591669.
PDEA seizes 40 kilos marijuana at Baguio transport
terminal
BAGUIO CITY -- Authorities
arrested a fruit vendor for yielding 44 bricks of dried marijuana leaves at a
transport terminal here, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)
said Wednesday.
PDEA director general
Arturo Cacdac Jr. said that the dried marijuana leaves which weighed 41.475
kilograms was confiscated from Antonette Campiwer Churping, a native of
Sadanga, Mountain Province and resident of Pinget, Baguio City.
Reports said last Dec.4,
around 7 p.m., combined elements of PDEA Regional Office-Cordillera
Administrative Region (PDEA RO-CAR) and the local police arrested Churping
after she was caught transporting the marijuana bricks in a bus and jeepney
terminal in Slaughter Compound, Barangay Sto. Niño, Baguio City.
"The seized
illegal drug was neatly concealed inside a multi-colored nylon bag of assorted
clothes, a box of ripe bananas and a sack of dried peanuts," Cacdac said.
A case for violation
of Section 5 (Transportation of Dangerous Drugs), Article II of Republic Act
9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, is now being prepared
for filing before the Baguio City Prosecutor’s Office against Churping, who is
now in the custody of PDEA RO-CAR.
Igorot cops bag Ilocos PNP awards
Four police officers
from the Cordillera who are stationed in San Fernando, La Union were recently
honored by no less than Retired Police Director General Ricardo De Leon for
seizing the most coveted award by besting 16 others in the competition for the
Best Regional Special Training Unit (RSTU) in the country for the year 2014.
Supt. Robert S.
Daculan who heads the RSTU for Region 01 based at Camp Brig. General Oscar M.
Florendo as Training Manager received the award in behalf of Region 01 and his
team during simple rites that coincided with the 9th Founding Anniversary of
the PNP Training Service at Camp Crame, Quezon City on Nov. 14.
The other team members
and personnel of RSTU1 are SPO3 Hugh Reginald G. Coplat of Tadian, Mt.
Province; SPO2 Christopher P. Nebrida of La Trinidad and Buguias, Benguet; and
SPO1 Winston T. Litilit of Sabangan, Mt. Province.
Prior to his
assignment as Training Manager of RSTU1, PSupt.Daculan was Section Chief of
Directorate for Human Resource and Doctrine Development (DHRDD), Team Leader of
the National Investigation Unit of the United Nations Mission in East Timor
(UNMIT), Deputy CIDG Provincial Officer of Rizal Province, and Special Mobile
Group Company Commander for the Police Regional Office in the Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao.
Special training units
in all the 17 regions in the country are in charge of police training in
Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Field Training Program (FTP), SCOUT, Rifle
and Pistol Marksmanship Trainings. - March Fianza
796 Cordillera cops promoted; UC, Cordillera PNP seal MOA
CAMP DANGWA, La
Trinidad, Benguet -- A total of 796 police commissioned officers (PCO) and
police non-commissioned officers (PNCO) were promoted to the next higher rank
here last week.
Regional police
director Chief Supt. Isagani Nerez graced the activity together with command
group, directorial staff, PNP officers among others.
Senior Supt. Joseph
Adnol, chief RPHRDD said promotion was part of 2014 regular promotion program.
Nerez extended his congratulations
to the newly promoted officers and expressed his thanks to their families and
friends for all the support given to their loved ones. He urged them to
continue seeking self and professional improvements.
Another highlight of
the program was the memorandum of agreement between University of Cordilleras
(UC) represented by Dr. Ramon C. Cercado, UC president; Ariel Ninio Pumecha,
dean, and regional police office represented by Nerez.
Both parties agreed to
have criminology students of UC to have their on-the-job training program in
police offices and provide training needed by
students. This agreement will begin on third trimester of 2014-2015
and continue during terms when there are
UC Criminology students qualified to undergo the OJT.
Drug personality cornered
in buy-bust
BAGUIO CITY -- Agents
of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera Administrative Region
arrested Tuesday night a drug personality six months after his acquittal from a
drug case.
William Lina Ibarra,
43, of Middle Quezon Hill here, was
arrested at Happy Glen Loop, Barangay SaludMitra, when he reportedly sold 5.31
grams of shabu to a PDEA agent who acted as buyer.
Seized from Ibarra
were seven sachets of shabu weighing19.09 grams worth P122,000, buy-bust money
and several drug paraphernalia.
Ibarra reportedly
tested positive for use of metamphetamine during the initial drug test.
Charges were filed
against Ibarra for illegal drugs who is now under custody of PDEA.
Ibarra was earlier
arrested \June 15, 2009 by PDEA agents but the case was dismissed on April 10,
2010. He was again apprehended on March 2, 2011 by police but was
acquired June 3, 2014.
Rebel couple surrenders
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet –
Two alleged members of the New People’s Army surrendered to the authorities in
Abra, police reported.
Robert Arciaga and his
wife Rochelle told Abra police director Senior Supt. Albertito Garcia that they
were tired of fighting and living in the mountains.
Authorities said
Rochelle was a medical officer of the NPA’s Kilusang Gerilya.
Robert, who was said
to be a member of militant group Anakbayan in Caloocan City, joined the
underground movement in 2012.
He served as vice
leader of the NPA “Lerio” team operating in Mountain Province until 2013. He
later joined the NPA’s “Ambag” team.
Robert said he was
trained in individual combat techniques and other rebel-related activities, but
denied having participated in any atrocities committed by the rebels.
Garcia said the couple
had no firearms when they surrendered.
The couple’s surrender
was facilitated by Tubo Mayor Gilbert Ballangan and town police chief Inspector
Rodolfo Tubadeza, said Cordillera police director Chief Supt. Isagani Nerez.
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