MCPO to add 2 police stations when class B status gets PNP OK

Mary Rose Sagarino 09/09/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Mandaue City will soon have two more police stations after the Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) was qualified to be elevated as a class B police office from being a class C. Aside…

Rama appoints former Napolcom-7 director as new ‘resident ombudsman’ for Cebu City 

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/29/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama on Monday, November 29, 2021, confirmed that he has reinstituted a ‘resident ombudsman’ at the city hall. During a press conference on Monday, Rama announced that he has appointed lawyer…

Labella asks Napolcom to investigate Sawang Calero cops, killing of witness

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/21/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella is asking the National Police Commission (Napolcom) to investigate the alleged extortion and rape of policemen from Barangay Sawang Calero. This he said after one of the witnesses,…

Surprise drug test for Mandaue police in annual NAPOLCOM inspection

Norman Mendoza 10/08/2019

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu, Philippines — It was a regular Tuesday morning, October 8, as 160 personnel from Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) were gathered on the second floor of Mandaue City Public Market for the annual inspection…

PRO-7 wants to maintain good relations with LGUs

Nestle Semilla 09/11/2018

If they have their way, officials of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) want to have a good relationship with local government units (LGUs). But Supt. Reyman Tolentin, information officer of the PRO-7, said they…

Cheating cops

Editorial 09/03/2017

If three hundred eighty-six cops from across the country managed to cheat in their 2011 exam, as the National Police Commission (Napolcom) confirmed when it ordered their dismissal from service last June 14, then there is little…

Napolcom: Police need to regroup, rethink role in war on drugs

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/20/2017

THE country’s police force should not be discouraged by their withdrawal from the government’s anti-drug operations, the regional chief of the National Police Commission (Napolcom) said yesterday. Rather, Napolcom regional director Homer Cabaral told the police during…

Cebu City to set aside P3.5M to buy bullets for cops’ shooting practice

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/02/2016

POLICEMEN in Cebu City will be required to undergo monthly gun proficiency training starting next year. Nagiel Bañacia, in charge of the Cebu City Hall’s peace and order program, said this was the instruction of Cebu City…

Dumpit ready to shoot if needed

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/29/2016

NOTWITHSTANDING the deaths of three crime suspects and the wounding of a dozen more attributed to his crime busting days as head of Cebu City’s “Hunter Team”, Cebu’s most controversial cop, SPO1 Adonis Dumpit, is still ready…

DUMPIT IS BACK

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/27/2016

With just three years left in service, the controversial SPO1 Adonis Dumpit simply wants to go where he will be asked to. “Kon unsay mando sa akong labaw, motuman ko (Whatever my superiors tell me, I will…

Dumpit returns to Cebu City

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/27/2016

SPO1 Adonis Dumpit is back in Cebu City. Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), today said he ordered the return of the 53-year-old policeman from the Bohol Provincial Police…

Cop, 2 others nabbed in drug bust

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/26/2016

CEBU CITY—A policeman and two other persons were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Sambag 2 in Cebu City past 11 p.m. on Tuesday. PO1 Gem Querubin, Chas Chavit and Sharon Abella were detained at the…

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