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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said he is worried that the Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSB) personnel will be pulled out from the city this month.
Several RPSB personnel augmented the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) in securing the MassKara Festival in October.
It was also the time when robbery and holdup incidents were rampant in the city.
Since then, the RPSB personnel have been assisting the BCPO.
Why will they be pulled out?
Familiaran said additional security personnel are needed in Iloilo City for the upcoming 50th Dinagyang Festival slated on Jan. 26, 27 and 28.
Having admitted that the RPSB personnel are a “big help” to the BCPO’s anti-crime operations, Familiaran said he will ask them to be reassigned in the city after Dinagyang.
He added that the patrol operations of the RPSB personnel, especially those during night time, have helped a lot in crime prevention in the city.
The RPSB personnel patrol the streets of Bacolod until 2 a.m., Familiaran said.
While they are gone, he said he expects the BCPO to keep mobilizing its personnel for the patrol operations.
This will require “doubled efforts” from the BCPO, the vice mayor stressed.
Meanwhile, records from the BCPO showed that the crime volume in the city has continued to decline as of the first week of January.
From Jan. 1 to 7, the police only recorded 33 crimes, 19.51 percent lower compared to the previous week’s (Dec. 25 to 31, 2017) 41 incidents.
The volume of eight focus crimes – murder, homicide, robbery, theft, carnapping, motornapping, physical injury, and rape – in the city also dropped 11.76 percent from Dec. 25 to 31, 2017 to Jan. 1 to 7, 2018, the records further showed.
BCPO attributed the decrease to their “continuous and active” anti-crime campaign.
The BCPO once again asked the public to continue supporting its plans and programs this year.
Moreover, the crime volume in the province also decreased in 2017, according to the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo).
There were 4,205 recorded cases of non-index crimes in 2017 from 2016’s 5,204 cases.
The number of index crimes also dropped from 3,904 in 2016 to 2,977 in 2017, Nocppo said.
Index crimes, as defined by the Philippine National Police, are crimes against persons like murder, homicide, physical injury, and rape, and crimes against property like robbery, theft, carnapping/carjacking and cattle rustling.
Non-index crimes, on the other hand, are violations of special laws like illegal logging or local ordinances./PN
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