P’sinan Top Cop Bares Deeds and Thrusts

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – The police honcho of the mammoth province of Pangasinan bares his accomplishment and thrusts to the media how to maintain the peace and order of the more than three million people he and his men are tasked to secure.

Provincial Police Office (PPO) Director Col. Jeff E. Fanged said that the focus crimes the police locked horns declined last year.

“Lahat ng focus crime natin homicide, rape, physical injuries, robberies bumaba compared noong mga nakaraang taon”.

LOOSE FIREARMS

He wanted his men to focus on the serenity of the campaign period and the election day of the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) as he pressed them this early to seize those loose firearms that could be used on the October 30, 2023 election.

“Iyon ang mga pinatutukan ko sa ating mga operatiba na chiefs of police naka concentrate sila ngayon sa pag apply ng search warrant at pagpapa surrender doon sa mga unlicensed and expired firearms”.

The ceaseless applications of search warrants of the law enforcers and call to those people to surrender their illegally owned firearms were his response to the order of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. and Department of Interior & Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos, Jr. after several high ranking provincial officials have been ambushed and killed recently.

The police have been assessing, too, the threats to politicians in the province for their safety. 

PRIVATE ARMED GROUP

Aside from two criminal gangs, there are no Private Armed Group (PAG) in Pangasinan.

He cited that the gangs that are guns for hire have been identified and their members have already issued warrant of arrest because of the felonies they committed. The action of the PPO against these groups are relentless so they could not be used in the forthcoming BSKE.

Some of the members of these syndicates were either killed, jailed, or in hiding.

He said hired killers like cashiered police and military men in the province come  from other places

NARCOTICS

Heeding the marching order of Pangasinan Governor Ramon Guico, III, Fanged is incessant on the campaign against illegal drugs in the province.

He deplored how narcotics sprout like mushrooms before when the law enforcers slackened their vigilance.

“Kasi na-observe natin pag nag relax tayo parang kabote iyan na mabilis dumami," quipped by the highly decorated class 1999 graduate of the Philippine National Police Academy.

THE EDITOR of Northern Watch Newspaper rubbed elbows in a dinner with the police top brass of the gargantuan province's Pangasinan in the recent Pindang (cured beef) Festival of burgeoning town's Mangaldan. Top photo fom -left-to- right: Intelligence Chief (Cops call it S-2) Lt. Col. Arvin Jacob, Northern Watch Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Mortz Ortigoza, Police Provincial Director Col. Jeff Fanged, Chief of Provincial Operations and Management Unit  Lt. Col. Jerome Wangkey, Deputy Director for Administration Lt. Col. Ricky Cabisola, and Deputy Director for Operation Lt. Col. Resty Santos.  

ILLEGAL GAMBLING LAW

He said the police even apprehended those who abet gambling during the wake.

He said the bereaved members of the family and devious individuals use the dead as front to attract gamblers to patronize their racket which is punishable under Republic Act No. 9287 or an act that increase the penalties of gambling in the Philippines.

The police even confiscated paraphernalia of the color games offered by the perya (carnival) in various towns in the province.

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MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

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I am a twenty years seasoned Op-Ed Political Writer in various newspapers and Blogger exposing government corruptions, public officials's idiocy and hypocrisies, and analyzing local and international issues. I have a master’s degree in Public Administration and professional government eligibility. I taught for a decade Political Science and Economics in universities in Metro Manila and cities of Urdaneta, Pangasinan and Dagupan. Follow me on Twitter @totoMortz or email me at totomortz@yahoo.com.