“Strengthen your collaboration with barangay officials,” Pineda said.
Consulta said the governor also wants the police to inspect all subdivisions in the province to check possible illegal drug laboratories.
“The governor instructed us to monitor the subdivisions baka nandyan sa mga subdivisions and mga laboratoryo. So, yun ang gagawin namin. Iikutan namin ang mga areas na yan (…maybe the laboratories are in the subdivisions. That’s what we are going to do. We will do the rounds in these areas),” he said.
“Sinabihan niya kami na mag coordinate sa mga barangay captains (She instructed us to coordinate with barangay captains) who have first-hand knowledge of what’s happening in their areas,” he said.
The governor is also moving to equip all barangays in the province to have a CCTV system capable of 24/7 monitoring which can be accessed via the soon-to-be established PNP command center.
In ensuring peace and order, Consulta said the provincial police office has a minimum of 90 checkpoints all over the province on a daily basis to monitor criminal elements.
“Every station has four daily checkpoints in each of the province’s 19 municipalities and two cities,” he said.
Consulta said the checkpoints implement “Oplan Sita” which has seized illegal firearms, drugs and unregistered motorcycles.
He said in Mabalacat City last Saturday, Oplan Sita was able to seized two illegal .38 caliber revolvers as well as shabu.
He said they have also impounded numerous motorcycles.
“Even the local traffic enforcers were able to issue a lot of citation tickets to drivers with no helmets and no driver’s licenses and motorcycles with no license plates. Consulta said they have conducted more than 60 “Oplan Tokhang” operations in the province since the controversial police operation against illegal drugs reverted to the PNP on December 5. “But it is now less bloody as ordered by the chief PNP,” he said.
Consulta said Pineda also wants the provincial police office to submit to the Governor’s Office the plans and programs of the PNP for 2018.
But the PNP director lamented that the police-citizen ratio now is only one policeman for every 1,750 citizens while the ideal is one policeman to 500 citizens.
Meanwhile, Consulta assured that there will be no movement in the provincial police hierarchy because all chiefs of police are “doing a good job.”
