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Sunday. September 17, 2017
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DUMAGUETE City – Senior Superintendent Edwin Portento, the new Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office (Norppo) director, wanted to adopt the “Bohol Model” in terms of coordination between the community and the law enforcement agencies in the province.
“I will be very happy kung makokopya natin iyong Bohol Model,” said Portento. “The people cooperated very well with the police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.”
Portento believed that the province can emulate the model if there is “a good cooperation between the community and the Philippine National Police, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the National Bureau of Investigation.”
Portento underscored the importance of partnership and cooperation by visiting various sectors of the local community during his peace and order campaign as the new Norppo director.
Moreover, Senior Police Officer 2 Edilberto Euraoba III, Norppo information officer, reported the province’s crime volume.
From January to Augus, Negros Occidental had a crime volume of 4,889.
Index crimes amounted to 1,206 while the non-index crimes, 3,693.
Traffic-related offenses comprised 39 percent of the non-index crimes with 1,914 incidents, followed by crimes involving special laws at 27 percent with 1,325 incidents and other non-index crimes with 454 incidents at 9 percent
Index crimes included theft with 475 incidents, followed by physical injuries with 307, murder, 117, robbery, 115, and rape with 91 incidents. (PIA/PN)
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