Some 440 field trainees from Region 6 get a send-off by the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office. The police recruits were among the 800 FTPs who augmented the local cops in helping securing the Asean summit. About a hundred of the 800 FTPs are being recommended for dismissal from the police roster for alleged abuses and serious infractions during their summit stint in Cebu. (Sun.star photo/Allan Cuizon)
A DIARRHEA outbreak in Loon, Bohol claimed the life of a three-year-old girl and caused some 150 residents to be admitted to the provincial and district hospitals.
Health officials are looking at the town’s water source as a possible reason, as the water may be contaminated.
100 rookie cops may be sacked
ALTHOUGH he was satisfied with and grateful to most of the 800 field training police (FTP) officers sent to augment their forces, Senior Supt. Vicente Loot admitted he was disappointed in about 100 of them.
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Cebu City Comelec south gets tag with 11 others
WITH up to 182,000 voters’ records that have to be cleansed, Cebu City’s poll offices were identified as one of the 12 problematic areas in the country due to the “non-action” of its staff on verifying records.
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