SENIOR Superintendent Henry Biñas, acting provincial director of Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office (Norppo) said on Wednesday that he is satisfied with the performance of the station commanders in their anti-illegal drugs campaign.
Biñas said the policemen have met the target in terms of the implementation of Oplan Tokhang and Oplan Double Barrel.
As of October 6, Norppo has almost 12,000 drug surrenderers.
“So far, I am satisfied with them generally but there are still police chiefs who need to improve more,” Biñas said.
Despite the low performance of other police chiefs, Biñas said he has yet to decide when to implement a reshuffling.
“We are still conducting continuous evaluation to assess the level of their performance,” Biñas added.
Biñas, who assumed as Norppo director only earlier this month, said he will continue to intensify the anti-illegal drug campaign in the province upon the orders of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo.
In another development, four persons were arrested for possession of illegal drugs in separate operations in Negros Island in the past two days.
In Bacolod City, Auggie Alagaban, 36, was arrested at Purok Neptune, Barangay Singcang-Airport on Wednesday after he sold a shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) to a police agent for P300.
Alagaban also yielded two more sachets of suspected shabu, drug paraphernalia, and P170 cash.
Terry Alanza, 55, of Barangay Canjusa, was collared in a police checkpoint at Barangay Zone 4, Pulupandan town on Tuesday after he was found with a sachet of shabu.
A man with an arrest warrant for violation of Sections 5 and 11 of
Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 was arrested at Pontevedra town on Tuesday after police seized from him three sachets of shabu.
Janno Covacha, 24, has a standing arrest warrant issued by La Carlota City Regional Trial Court Branch 63 Judge Cyclamen Jison-Fernandez.
In Negros Oriental, Kirby Joshua Palencia, 23, of Barangay Looc, Dumaguete City, was arrested in a buy-bust at Sitio Canday-ong on Wednesday.
Police recovered from Palencia two sachets of shabu and P300 marked money.