Police sets ‘warrant day’
CEBU Provincial Police Office Director Sr. Supt. Clifford Gairanod wants to set aside a “warrant day,” when police will focus only on serving warrants.
There are more than 1,000 pending warrants within the province. Not all are expected to be served in one day, however.
“Actually kinuha ko lang ang idea from Cebu City (police office) na maglaan ng isang ‘warrant day’ para lahat ng warrants ma-serve (I got the idea to schedule a warrant day from the Cebu City police),” Gairanod said.
He said they can serve first the warrants against suspects with known whereabouts. Another day will be scheduled for the rest of the warrants.
“Hindi pwedeng one day. Mag-schedule tayo ng isang araw na mag-concentrate talaga sa pag-serve ng warrants,” he said.
The warrants will be classified and segregated first for easy distribution to the different units and police stations with the province. Each station has one warrant server.
Gairanod said he will coordinate with and tap intelligence officers to also serve some warrants.
“Ang police gud usahay moingon, ‘ah unya nalang na i-serve.’ So atong klarohon. I still have to talk with my staff and intelligence men kung paano namin ma-diskartehan iyon,” he said.
Gairanod announced his plan for a warrant day during the first-quarter meeting of the Provincial Peace and Order Council yesterday.
Aside from holding a warrant day, Gairanod also proposed more training for police officers, the creation of an integrated communication network center, and recruitment and training of junior police and parents brigade.
During the meeting, Gairanod reported that total crime volume in Cebu increased by 14 percent to 2,018 in January this year.
“The increase is not alarming,” he said.
Of the number, 1,675 incidents were recorded in the Philippine National Police blotter. The rest were found in the blotter of barangays and other law enforcement agencies.
More than half, or 1,185 cases, were non-index crimes, or those that are violations of traffic and other special laws.
He said theft, robbery and physical injuries were the top three crimes, although the number of theft and robbery cases declined.
Theft cases went down to 186 in January this year from 206 a year ago while robberies decreased to 119 from 134 in the same period. Physical injuries cases, on the other hand, increased to 108 from 81.
From Jan. 12 to 18, Gairanod said their Limpyo Probinsya program yielded more than one kilogram of shabu worth P12.5 million and the arrest of 128 persons.
Since Jan. 9, he said police has conducted 189 operations that led to the confiscation of 1.7 kilograms of shabu worth P21 million and arrest of 371 persons.
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