Bacolod City Police officer-in-charge, Senior Supt. Celestino Guara, yesterday said the proposal to centralize all the police precincts under the BCPO should be studied further.
A proposal to study the possibility of maintaining the back-up police precincts or centralizing them with the BCPO to address the crime incidents in Bacolod was made by Councilor El Cid Familiaran last week. Guara said that a directive from Camp Crame states that there should be a police station in every 12 barangays as the standard staffing pattern of a city police office. Since Bacolod has 61 barangays, at least five police stations with chief of police, deputy police chief administration and operations officers, are needed, Guara said. He called for a command conference with the chiefs of police yesterday, during which they were asked to report the crime situations in their areas of responsibilities. During the conference, the policemen learned that crime incidents in the areas of police stations 2 and 4 are more frequent compared to those in other police stations. “There are a lot of crime incidents in these areas but only few suspects were arrested and this is considered alarming, so we told them to boost police visibility in these places,” Guara said. Policemen in the areas where crimes are prevalent may have taken their duties for granted, Guara also said. He also denied that there are snatching and robbery syndicates operating in Bacolod, saying that thieves striking in the city are from out of town. Guara formed an anti-robbery and snatching task force this week to address the occurrence of crime incidents in Bacolod.*APN BY ADRIAN NEMES III Visayan Daily Star
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