Town police chief succumbs to heart attack

Senior Insp. Glenn Devocion died of a heart attack yesterday at home in barangay Labangon, Cebu City.

The 45-year-old police chief of Asturias town and his girlfriend Irene Maglasang had plans to wed in June.

Maglasang, who is nine weeks pregnant, said they were still lying in bed with their three young sons at 10:30 a.m. when  the police official had a seizure.

“Our youngest child approached him. I was surprised when I saw him shaking and experiencing seizure,” Maglasang said.

Devocion was brought to the Cebu Doctors’ Hospital where he later died.

Maglasang said the police official had suffered a mild heart attack  in September last year and had began taking maintenance medicine.

Devocion was known as a music-lover and was team leader of the Police Regional Office Central Visayas (PRO-7) Peacekeepers Band where he  played the bass.

Maglasang said their  last conversation took place yesterday dawn when the police official came home from a gathering with friends.

“I asked him if he had a good time he said yes. Then we talked about our upcoming wedding. I didn’t expect that would be our last conversation,” Maglasang said.

Devocion served as chief of police in Asturias since January  15 this year.

He once served as chief of the Borbon police before he was moved to the City of Naga as part of a revamp that stemmed from an incident where one of his men was arrested in an alleged drug den.

SPO4 Dennis Nocos, deputy chief of the Asturias police, described Devocion as a disciplinarian and strict when it comes to observing rules in the police station.

Nocos said Devocion never missed giving lectures to his men on the correct procedures of a  buy-bust operation and serving arrest warrants.

The police official’s vigil wake will be held in his parents’ house in barangay San Nicholas, Cebu City.