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Wednesday, August 06, 2003
Police precinct found empty in surprise visit
AMID a full alert status of all police units in Region 11 following the failed coup staged by at least 300 soldiers in Makati City on July 27, a police precinct in Compostela Valley remains slack in its security.
Senior Supt. Francisco Arquillano, deputy director of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 11, complained regarding the sorry state of the Mabini Police Station when he conducted a surprise inspection around 9:30 a.m. on August 2.
Arquillano said Monday that of the 22 police personnel deployed at the Mabini MPO, only the duty operator was around. Without identifying himself, Arquillano said he caught the operator wearing short pants, a pair of slippers without any shirt on.
Arquillano said the operator told him that his fellow policemen were assigned at the public market. But upon inspection of the Mabini market, he did not see a single police officer around.
"The detailed market guards on that day were also not around," Arquillano said in his report to PRO 11 Director Isidro Lapeņa.
Lapeņa upon reading the report issued a memorandum to Supt. Jaime Morente, chief of the ComVal Provincial Police Office, to issue a memorandum to Insp. Fulgencio Moreno, Mabini police chief, to answer the allegations.
"This simply shows laxity of the immediate commander manning the station," Lapeņa said in his memorandum.
A source at Camp Catitipan revealed that all police units are on full alert status after Indonesian Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, a bomb expert of the Jemaah Islamiah, escaped his prison cell and the failed mutiny in Makati City ten days ago. RCO
(August 6, 2003 issue)
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