Fake text messages send police on wild goose trails

By Larry Lopez

TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Fake text messages on purported crime incidents have sent police on wild goose trails which yielded nothing but waste their time.

Due to this, the city chief of police here appealed to unscrupulous individuals to stop making fun of the police hotline by sending fake text messages.

Supt. Geremias Oyawon, city police chief said text messages received by their office were later found out by responding police teams to be hoax.

“Recently, text messages about a floating body in Pinukpuk municipality and a beheaded corpse in Barangay Magsaysay, here were received in the police hotline but later proved to be fake,| Oyawon said.

He warned that anybody found to be the source of fake messages shall be penalized accordingly.

“If their intention is to test how immediate is the response by the police to text messages or calls in our area that is not a correct measure. But if they are just making fun of our peace force, they should watch out lest we catch them. We post police hotlines to the public so the police can make immediate action, not for people to make fun of.”

He appealed to the community to cooperate and help the police in its peace program by giving correct and relevant information.