THE Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 welcomed the Oratio Imperata released by the Archdiocese of Cebu last week to end the spate of killings in Cebu.
Supt. Reyman Tolentin, spokesperson of PRO 7, assured that the police are doing their best to solve the killings in Cebu.
“Maayo na kay para ang mga tawo mag-ampo aron magnalinawon ta (That’s good so that the people would pray for peace). We assure them that we are on top of the peace and order situation in the region,” he said.
Tolentin said, though, that it would boost their morale if the church will also include in their prayers the police officers who sacrificed and who continue to sacrifice their lives to maintain the peace in Cebu.
“Apilon unta nila sa ilang pag-ampo para at least malikay pud sa disgrasya atong mga tropa (May they also include us in their prayers so that our troops would also be safe as they fulfill their duties),” Tolentin said.
The Oratio Imperata is a prayer for a specific cause, in this case, for the faithful to pray that the killings in the province would stop.
Numerous killings in Cebu in the past months remain unsolved, including the shooting of two agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 7, two police officers and several suspected drug personalities.
“It has got to a point that the archbishop felt the church had to do something about the killings. You can’t have people getting killed every day here and there,” Msgr. Joseph Tan, the archdiocese’s spokesperson, said in an earlier interview.
He said the oratio imperata will be prayed until the killings stop.
“We hope that God will answer our prayers and that the faithful won’t accept that people are getting killed every day as normal, that those responsible will be bothered by their conscience, and the victims’ family will get assistance,” Tan said. (JOB)