BACOLOD City – Authorities in Negros Occidental vowed to intensify their crackdown against all forms of illegal gambling following reports that some local residents use their cash amelioration to gamble and engage in drinking sprees while the entire province is under quarantine.
Colonel Romeo Baleros, provincial police chief, said he directed all police stations, Mobile Force Companies and other operating units in Negros Occidental to intensify operations against those who engaged in illegal gambling and drinking intoxicating liquor.
He warned those who blatantly violate the order will experience the full force of the law.
“No matter how far their place maybe, we’ll find and get them,” Baleros said.
Last week, President Rodrigo Duterte has directed the Department of the Interior and Local Government to delist those found guilty of violating quarantine rules from the official list of people benefiting from the government’s social amelioration program./PN
