Wednesday, May 07, 2008 Barrita: TVs and cops By Eddie O. Barrita Small Bites
CRIME incidents in Cebu City dropped by 36 percent in the first quarter this year over the same period last year.
Cebu City Police Director Pat Comendador has proven police can rein in crime without need of vigilantes.
But he should also deal with warring youth gangs pronto.
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Cebu Provincial Police Director Carmelo Valmoria has ordered all police stations to put up scorecards.
Carcar City police should be proud to highlight the entry, “one suspected bank robber killed, another shot and wounded.”
Other police stations whose score is a fat zero can hide it.
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PNP Chief Avelino Razon Jr. has barred front desk policemen from watching Tagalog telenovelas in police stations.
TV sets will soon be removed from police front desks.
No more TVs for cops?
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PNP Chief Razon should realize there’s more to TV than telenovelas.
Who knows his men may learn from the news there’s an ongoing robbery nearby or pick up a lesson or two from episodes of Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) and other whodunit shows?
They would also know how bad cops were entrapped.
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Capitol is set to continue its asphalting of provincial roads this year, setting aside P324 million for this project.
This time around, asphalting of the Cabadiangan-Mulao road will be completed.
By then, Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia would be the first governor to have paved the most number of provincial roads in the province.
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The Mandaue City Council is set to ask Mayor Jonas Cortes to explain the road closure for a drag racing over the weekend at the Mandaue reclamation area.
I don’t think that’s necessary.
Ask him instead whether he learned that from Mayor Tommy Osmeña, who closed the South Coastal Road, also for a drag racing.
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The Office of the Ombudsman wants 14 doctors and nurses placed under formal criminal investigation for “undue injury” for their raucous behavior during the successful extraction of a body spray canister from Jan-jan’s anus.
