San Jorge PNP acquires patrol cars, ambulance and rescue vehicles from Mayor Grey

By RICKY J. BAUTISTA
February 20, 2007

CATBALOGAN, Samar  –  The San Jorge police force has acquired anew additional patrol car and rescue vehicles to be used in maintaining peace and order in the locality.

In a simple turned over ceremony held January 29, Mayor Joseph V. Grey, through his representative, handed over one unit of Mitsubishi L300 patrol car, one set of police uniform to each of the 15 policemen, two units Mitsubishi L300 rescue vehicles, and one unit ambulance marked “grey for life” to the policemen in part of his peace and order program.

These, he said, was in addition to his monthly rice and gasoline contribution coupled with encouragement for these vanguards to have their dedication and sincere service in his town.

Inspector Chito Cano, the town’s police chief told this paper that the vehicles is an augmentation of their existing “old” patrol car and motorcycles owned by some policemen, all used to maintain peace situation and conduct emergency response to remote villages of this locality.

Insp. Cano acknowledged the full support of Mayor Grey through the provision of these items, which according to him, of “great help” in waging war against all forms of criminalities in their area of responsibility.

“Malaki ang pasasalamat naming lahat kay mayor sa mga tulong at suporta na ibinibigay niya samin. Nagpapasalamat din po kami sa mga tao sa kanilang kooperasyon sa amin,” the PNP official said in vernacular.

On the other hand, Insp. Cano reported that San Jorge these days is “generally peaceful” and that crime volume in the area is manageable situation.

He said, in 2006 the total crime volume (TCV) is only nine; eight was index crimes and one non-index crime. “The crime solution efficiency (CSE) was placed at 87.5% with average monthly crime rate (AMCR) at 4.889% as compared to 2005 TCV’s 18 crimes while CSE is 50% with AMCR 117.34 percent,” Insp. Cano said.

In fact, for this year, “we have a zero-crime yet in this locality,” he added.