Former Parian cops to be redeployed

MORAL RECOVERY COURSE DONE

 

The 34 police officers, who were relieved from the Parian Police Precinct, are to be deployed back to other Cebu City precincts after undergoing a 15-day moral recovery program.

Dr. Philip Bartolaba, chairman of Ethics and Discipline Director of PNP Values Formation Council of the Visayas, said that the police officers completed the course on Friday, where they were reminded through lectures about the values of righteousness and integrity especially in performing their jobs.

Bartolaba said that the course also included showing the police officers the importance of dedication to their work and their duties and responsibilities as a public servant.

All the police officers of Parian Police Precinct were relieved last month amid an extortion controversy, where one of its police officers was arrested in an entrapment operation.

Senior Supt. Joel Doria, Cebu City Police Office chief, said that the 34 police officers, who graduated from the 15-day moral recovery course, would be deployed to the other precincts except Police Station 1 or the Parian Police Precinct, which is being manned by those, who replaced them.

Doria also said that some of them would also most likely be assigned to the still to be set up Police Community Personnel Precinct, whose job would include police community relations and securing the area by conducting beat patrols as well.

Doria said that the new precinct would cover Hippodromo and Mabolo area with the Mabolo Police Precinct overseeing the operations of the new precinct.

Chief Supt. Robert Quenery, Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) director, for his part, challenged these police officers to shape up and do good deeds.

Quenery said that these police officers are not bad guys but there are times when they falter in their jobs and that is the reason for the moral recovery program.

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