Cops warned: Conduct checkpoints or face probe

TAKE your job seriously.

This stern warning was issued after it was found out that a police station chief in Cebu City failed to follow an order for police stations to conduct a daily  checkpoint.

Chief Insp. Errol Francis Deveyra, chief of the Parian Police Station, was asked to explain  their failure to follow the order.

Deveyra may face an administrative investigation if he is unable to  come up with a valid reason, said Chief Supt. Manuel Gaerlan, acting regional director of the Police Regional Office Central Visayas (PRO-7).

“They can’t stay as commanders doing nothing. We have to step up,” said Gaerlan.

In a separate interview, Senior Supt. Rey Lyndon Lawas, deputy regional director for operations of PRO-7, said conducting regular checkpoints is part of the campaign to ensure a peaceful election.

The conduct of regular checkpoints was ordered after the election gun ban started last Jan. 10.

Lawas said that records for a certain day showed that since the election gun was implemented,  only 77 checkpoints were conducted when there are 100 police stations in the region.

“We will be look into those who are not conducting checkpoints as required by our memorandum circular for the safe and fair election 2016. They are required to submit an explanation if they failed to conduct the mandatory checkpoint per day,” he said.

“Dili ni duwa-duwa or drama-drama (This is not a game nor a drama). This is ensuring that we’ll have a peaceful election. We have to start by complying with our tasks,” Lawas said.