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Friday, January 13, 2006
DILG assures completion of Oplan: Balik Balasa
BANGUED, Abra -- Oplan Balik Balasa will be completed by April this year with the return of the remaining 63 policemen presently assigned in the different provinces of the Cordillera to Abra.
Interior and Local Governments Secretary Angelo Reyes made this assurance when he visited the province last January 7, after the DILG was invited by the League of Municipalities of the Philippines - Abra Chapter thru its president, Bangued Mayor Maria Zita Claustro-Valera, and Governor Vicente Valera for an interfacing with local officials.
In a speech, he reaffirmed his support for local chief executives and recommitted to work closely with them.
"In order to achieve our dream of peace and order, and public safety, there should be a bilateral partnership with the community," he pointed out.
He credited the local officials and the community for bringing down the crime rate in the province, and urged them to show that such partnership will work and will continue to work.
Responding to questions from municipal mayors, Reyes also committed to strengthen police visibility in checkpoints, especially at night, and to evaluate the need for more permits to carry firearms.
On the same occasion, Reyes was declared as a 'Son of Abra,' through Resolution No. 01-2006 passed by the Provincial Board. The DILG was cited in the resolution for having demonstrated "courage and capacity to put in place the kind of public safety in Abra everyone now experiences and enjoys" and for instituting "the politics of unity and harmony, and not hatred and dread."
Accompanying Reyes in his first visit to the province were Undersecretary for Peace & Order and Transnational Crimes Melchor Rosales, Assistant Secretary for Field Operations Leonilo Lariosa, PNP Directorate for Logistics chief Noe Wong, PRO-Cordillera director Leonardo Dionisio and Napolcom Commissioner Linda Malenab-Hormilla. (Press Release)
(January 13, 2006 issue)
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