EARLY this week, Bacolod City Mayor Evelio R. Leonardia expressed dismay with the way Bacolod City Police Office director Senior Supt. Celestino Guara is conducting the campaign against jai alai in Bacolod City.
Leonardia received information that Guara knows the eight jai alai operators in the city. However, the mayor wondered why the city police director did not take the steps to apprehend the operators. Moreover, Leonardia was also puzzled what the police chief is doing about the existence of jai alai operations in the city. The local chief executive has stressed numerous times that the illegal operation of jai alai does not have a place in Bacolod. Guara publicly announced earlier that there are eight jai alai operators in the city, based on the betting tipsters that are regularly circulating, namely the Dalisay, Speed, La Cesta, Buenas, Fronton, Neo Grande and two others. Meanwhile, city councilor El Cid Familiaran, Sangguniang Panlungsod chairman of the Committee on Police, Security and Jail Management, proposed a resolution requesting the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to apprehend jueteng, jai alai, masiao, daily double and all illegal gambling operations as well as their operators and financiers that operate in the city. The legislator believes that with the assistance of the CIDG and NBI, the illegal gambling operations will be addressed. From the period of July to September 14, Guara disclosed that the combined elements of BCPO and the Vice Squad Control Section have arrested 65 alleged jai alai bet collectors in the city, citing that since they started the campaign against this illegal gaming, 57 of the arrested bet collectors are facing charges before the city prosecutor’s office. The people of Bacolod, though not too impressed with the authority’s performance against jai alai, hope that the BCPO will show more teeth in running after the operators and financiers of these illegal gambling activities. Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod newspaper on September 17, 2010.
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