by magnolia_eic | Feb 21, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
THANKFUL of the huge bulk of positive information from communities about criminals roaming the province,
Bohol police chief PSSupt. Constantino Barot indulges people to be more patient as the police would surely act on them.
We are assuring the people that we are not sleeping on the information they provided, said Camp Dagohoy-
based superintendent Barot, who hinted that the latest scores the law enforcement agents are getting came
from community sources.
The past few weeks saw police officers conducting lightning raids resulting in almost daily turn-over of
suspects, most of the engaged in alarming criminal activities.
Over and above these raids, police intensified its Police Integrated Patrol System which puts up mini-
lockdowns all over Bohol roads at different times of day netting countess illegal vehicles and motorcycles,
erring drivers and criminal personalities resulting in decrease of crime volumes.
At our weekly monitoring since the PIPS started, we have noted a huge decrease in criminalities, PSupt.
Arcadio Jamora averred at the recent Kapihan sa PIA aired over DyTR.
Another officer, PSInsp. Ramoncillo Sawan said that the focus areas for monitoring of street crimes, crimes
perpetrated by motorcycle riding criminals and fire-arms control show a down trend.
Over this, PSSupt. Barot urged the people to understand that it is their intention to hassle citizens but to
assure their safety and allow an environment of peace and development here.
At checkpoints, our men manning their posts know what to do and in fact they have a hold of intelligence data
which helps them keep watch for criminal elements roaming Bohol streets, Barot added.
These checkpoints intelligence data based and are sustained by the massive information shared by intelligence
assets in the barangays.
Faced with a dire need for more police presence, Bohol has pushed for the Barangay Peace-keeping Action
Teams (BPAT) which the cops established as force multipliers and has fed the enforcers’ massive intelligence
data base.
These intelligence reports are being analyzed and these have sustained our operations, many of which proved
positive, Barot admitted.
For criminals who simply evade the checkpoints, authorities have asked people to report them.
We can not be in all places at all times, and here we would like to ask people to keep the information coming,
Barot said. (racPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 21, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
CRIME fighting and deterrence has just become scientific in Bohol.
A police anti-crime program called the Police Integrated Patrol System (PIPS) intends to maximize the impacts
of police pro-active presence despite their being thinly spread, briefly summarizes PSSupt Constantino Barot at
the recent Kapihan sa PIA Thursday and aired live over DyTR.
Bohol police authorities under PSSUpt Barot are now coordinating efforts to spread an encompassing dragnet
to get police officers on their toes against crimes and the opportunity to get one done.
Using a system of synchronized checkpoints importing analyzed data from crime statistics in Bohol the past,
the PIPS checkpoints are set up in the very times of day when most crimes happen, in areas in Bohol where
most crimes happen and on the days of the week or month earlier found to be when crimes usually occur,
explains Barot earlier.
The setting up of mobile patrols and checkpoints are coordinated with adjoining towns to spread a fine-eyed
net that keeps areas crime free or “lock down” areas so criminals can not get in or get out, police operations
said.
This is not just to set up mandatory checkpoints, but also doubles our efforts to up foot patrols and increase
police visibility as a crime deterrent.
According to the police provincial commander, the PIPS is intelligence driven activity where every officer
manning his post at the checkpoint integrates data gathered from intelligence reports, criminal watchlists,
broadcasts and other pro-active data from a wide net of intelligence assets including barangay based anti-
crime teams.
The PIPS mobile checkpoints also puts forward the police’s Oplan Sita, anti drugs and illegal firearms, traffic
laws enforcement and defensive driving, making it truly an integrated patrol system.
Camp Dagohoy based operations chief PSupt. Arcadio Jamora Jr. bared that the checkpoints have truly dented
on the crime incidence in the past months.
Since November when PIPS was launched, police authorities have caused the impounding of about a thousand
motorcycles traveling without plates, registrations, no-road worthy, another more than 500 four-wheeled
vehicles with similar violations and erring drivers with expired or no licenses, Jamora read from his notes.
Police deputy for operations, PSinp. Ramoncillo Sawan, citing statistics from their weekly monitoring activities
averred that indeed crimes went down.
Lowered crime incidence can also be credited to the simultaneously raids on safehouses, homes and known
criminal dens, said Barot who starts to savor the successes of a good policing, (racPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Jan 27, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TULO ka opisyal sa Kampo Dagohoy karon ang gi-hugon-hugon nga pilian isip bag-ong hepe sa kapolisan sa Tagbilaran, segun sa mga taho gikan sa Kampo Dagohoy.
Kini maoy kasayuran gikan mismo sa buhatan ni Provincial Director Constantino Barot, kinsa maoy magduso sa tulo ka ngalan aron kapilian sa loka nga hepe ehekutibo sa syudad.
Sa usa ka sulat pinaagi sa electronic mail, ang buhatan ni Barot mipadala sa mga pangalan sa mga kandidato nga pilian ni Mayor Dan Lim agig hulip ni PInsp. Julius Cesar Gornez isip hepe sa kapolisan sa syudad.
Apilian sila si Psupt Arcadio Jamora Jr, si PSupt Antonieto P. Cuyos ug si PSupt Gil A. Delprado aron mao nay mahimong hepe sa syudad.
SI PSupt Jamora maoy kasamtangang Operations Officer sa Bohol Provincial Police Office, si PSupt Cuyos maoy kasamtangang Police Community Relations Officer samtang si PSupt Delprado maoy Assistant Provl Director alang sa Operations sa Kampo Dagohoy. (racPIAPohol)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 14, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
SNIFFING dogs, yes. But drug sniffing askals, why not?
Noting that an askal (asong kalye) at Camp Dagohoy has become his daily companion in his early morning conditioning runs, Bohol’s top cop said, perhaps training a native dog to sniff out drugs and contraband goods may work out.
If, without asking the dog to get after me, he regularly follows during my morning runs, then it shows that by training, the native stray dog can easily cope up with the routines.
Himself feeling the concern on the proliferation of illegal drugs that could only pass through the ports from Cebu, PSSupt Rodolfo Llorca said Bohol may be in dire need of drug sniffing dogs to weed out these contraband items being shipped to Bohol.
But knowing the staggering costs of acquiring imported dogs, keeping their food allocations and paying for their training and trainors, Llorca said he would like to know if training askals would be just as effective.
Llorca told the media during the Talakayan sa Isyung Pulis last Wednesday at the Camp Dagohoy that as a metro drug buster, he recalled the indispensability of sniffing dogs to hunt for drugs that may be easy to stash.
Once, he said his men were not able to apprehend the suspect who inserted sachets of drugs in her underwear absent a search warrant.
But with the succeeding raid, and with a sniffing dog in tow, police were able to confiscate the drugs as the courier knew the dog would just be as relentless as stripping her underwear off.
Llorca stressed that the presence of sniffing dogs at the ports of entry would be a big crime deterrence and would easily cut the technicality of search warrants that could not be had just as fast.
Dogs have an unusually keen sense of smell that as soon as they distinguish the scent of the item to be searched, from bombs to drugs, they could be relentless until they can find the item sough after.
Over this, a more thorough study on the feasibility of using native dogs as sniffers over German shepherds, Labradors and St. Bernands may prove a better bargain for Bohol.
Rather than seeing the problem of stray dogs as causes of too many road accidents and the spread of rabies, using them as sniffing dogs may increase their use and would allow them to be truly worth the monicker as man’s best friend. (rac/PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 7, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
POLICE authorities are now reviving a program to elevate road safety in Bohol.
This as PSSupt. Rodolfo Llorca bared some details of the plan to make Bohol road networks free from accidents and conducive to the booming tourism industry.
The plan, which includes putting up of proper directional signages also includes rest stations and relieving facilities along major tourism roads.
This should to allow drivers to rest instead of pushing on to the next destination and then exposing themselves and the tourists to accidents, Llorca said.
The Camp Dagohoy top police officer also cited that the road safety plan would include extensive operations against road worthy vehicles including motorcycles which have been running illegally and have been altered to the detriment of the common good.
The recent Regional Peace and Order Council also reported an alarming increase in crimes committed by motorcycle riding men.
Records said that about 29 crimes by motorcycle riding men were committed in Bohol during the first quarter of the year. The number rose to 36 in the next three months. (PIA-Bohol)
