PRO6 honors model units, individuals
The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOPPO) led the awardees as Police Regional Office (PRO) VI celebrated the 19th Philippine National Police anniversary yesterday.
NOPPO was named Model Police Provincial Office for 2009 while two units under it were also honoured.
The San Carlos City Police Station was named Model Urban Police Station while the EB Magalona Police Station was the region’s Model Rural Police Station.
The award was bestowed by PNP Directorate for Integrated Police Office (DIPO) Visayas chief Director Ray Roderos, who represented PNP chief Director General Jesus Versoza, and PNP Regional Director Chief Supt. Isagani Cuevas.
Other best units are 608th Provincial Mobile Group based in Sara, Iloilo as Model Provincial Maneuver Unit; Regional Crime Laboratory Office 6 as Model National Support Unit for Administration; and the Regional Maritime Office 6 as Model National Support Unit for Operations.
The 6th Regional Public Safety Management Battalion received a special award for its participation as contingent to Task Force BAND-IT in Sulu province particularly in the campaign against criminality and insurgency.
Meanwhile, for individual category, Chief Inspector Gilbert Gorero, Chief of Police of San Jose, Antique was honored after he made it as a national finalist in the 2009 Search for the LEAD PNP.
An award was also given to Senior Inspector Lourdes Banzuelo of Iloilo City Police Office as the PNP lone awardee for the Civil Service Commission Search for the Dangal ng Banyan Award and PO2 Rina Salaya of Maasin Municipal Police Station as one of the Ten Outstanding Policewomen of the Philippines.
Meanwhile, Nelson Cajilig was named Non-Uniformed Personnel (NUP) of the Year.
PRO6 also recognized the Iloilo City Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team (BPAT) as Model BPAT of the Year; Victorio Andrade, Ph.D. as resident auditor; Pastor Celino Villarete for his invaluable service in the moral transformation program of the PRO6; CPU TV Channel and DYLL Radyo ng Bayan for their support in the information and advocacy campaign of PRO6 against criminality, insurgency and terrorism; and Smartcom, Inc. as reliable communications partner in various activities.
The News Today was also cited for providing PRO6 issues of its newspapers for a number of years thereby contributing immensely in the limited resources of the privileged police offices.
Reading a prepared speech of Versoza, Roderos said that Western Visayas is one of the model police offices in the country.
He added that under the leadership of Cuevas, PRO-6 has instituted several headways in the PNP’s transformation campaign.
Roderos particularly cited the Cuevas’s 7-9-7 scheme on the daily accounting of personnel.
