Capiz PNP sets peace pact signing

ROXAS CITY, Capiz, March 7 (PIA6) – A peace covenant signing will be conducted by the Capiz Police Provincial Office (CPPO) for candidates in the May 2013 elections of Roxas City, Pan-ay town and the provincial government on March 13 at the Metropolitan Cathedral here.

The activity, in coordination with the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), is in line with the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) Safe And Fair Election (SAFE) 2013 campaign.

CPPO Public Information Officer SPO1 Donna B. Asmod said that a holy mass will be conducted prior to the political candidates signing of the covenant before witnesses that include local media practitioners, law enforcement authorities, barangay and COMELEC officials, non-government organizations representatives and criminology students.

“Other municipalities have already conducted the covenant signing in separate occasions,” Asmod noted.

During the program, Capiz police director Senior Supt. Domingo S. Cabillan will read the covenant which stipulates that local candidates will condemn threats, intimidation, use of private armed groups and other illegal activities to advance their respective political interests.

The covenant has been translated in Hiligaynon for a deeper understanding and appreciation of the candidates and Capiceños.

The activity will be graced by Police Regional Office (PRO) – 6 director Chief Supt. Agrimero E. Cruz, Jr. and Philippine Army’s 61st Infantry Batallion Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Cristopher C. Sab-it, Sr. and COMELEC Provincial Election Supervisor lawyer Elizabeth D. Doronila, among others.

The SAFE campaign aims to ensure that the 2013 elections is safe and free of violence.
(JCM/Alex A. Lumaque/PIA 6 Capiz)

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Parents, officials should help ensure peace, order

ROXAS CITY, Capiz, Feb. 28 (PIA6) – Capiz officials called on the parents and barangay officials to join forces to ensure peace and order here.

In the recent emergency meeting of the Roxas City Peace and Order Council called by City Mayor Angel Alan Celino, councilor Powell del Rosario said that the parents play a vital role in ensuring that their children are under their watch in order that they will not be involved in any criminality.

Del Rosario also said that barangay officials equally have the role in securing their people and ensuring the peace and order situation in their respective areas.

He said that the city’s curfew ordinance for minors should strictly be enforced in order that children will not be wandering in the streets from 10 o’clock in the evening until 4 o’clock in the morning.

The emergency meeting of the RCPOC came after Mayor Celino feel alarmed of the series of robbery incidents in the city involving business establishments, houses and government offices.

“Children are being used by adults in the robbery operations because of the protection given by law to said minors,” del Rosario said, adding that the city’s Junkshop Ordinance requiring junkshop peddlers to have identification cards from the city licensing office must also be enforced.

On the other hand, the council members emphasized the need to heighten police visibility through an intensified police mobile and foot patrol as well as intensification of the police’s intelligence network.

The group likewise stressed that the barangays should also strengthen its "Ronda" patrol with the barangay civilian volunteer organization, barangay tanod and Barangay Peacekeeping Action Teams (BPATs). (JCM/JBG/PIA6-Capiz)

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BJMP calls on public support for rehabilitation of inmates

ROXAS CITY, Capiz, Feb. 15 (PIA6) – Family and community support are needed for the development and rehabilitation of inmates.

Roxas City Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Warden Jairus Anthony Dogelio emphasized that the family and the people in the community should be ready to help and provide assistance to the inmates for them to become better and more productive citizens.

“Those who are in jail could have done wrong only because of some circumstances that are beyond their control,” he said.

He also appealed to the public to provide support and understanding instead of discriminating and making them outcasts of society.

“As part of empowering and building up of the inmate’s self-confidence, we are now calling them as “residents”, he said, adding that they are also renaming the Cell Numbers into Barangays.

Dogelio said that for the 134 inmates in said jail, of whom 128 are males and six are females, they are initiating several programs to change the residents to become better and more productive individuals while under the government’s custody.

He revealed that some of the residents are into livelihood activities such as the hollow blocks and candle making as well as woodcraft and handicraft making to augment their family income.

“As part of our livelihood program for them, we have already conceptualize the paper bag making which is also in support to the Roxas City’s No Plastic Days ordinance” he said.

Dogelio also revealed that during the recent registration of voters, a total of 68 detainees were initiated to be registered with the Commission on Election.

He said that the provision of paralegal services, , recreation and physical fitness activities, skills training and knowledge and updated information through its “Bantay Ko, Guro Ko” Alternative Learning System, aside from the livelihood program, the inmates are given hope and importance as we continue to give value and dignity to their lives while in jail.

Dogelio said that because of the new programs in the correction system which is a social responsibility to prepare the inmates for mainstreaming in the community, they have widen their insights and capacity to become useful and productive citizen as they look forward to be back to their respective families.

On the other hand, he is hopeful that the fencing of the additional 1,000-square meter lot donated by former Roxas City Health Office head Dr. Evelyn Sicad will provide more space to the inmates for their livelihood, training and therapeutic activities.

Dogelio said that have already made a request for funds to Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, through Capiz 1st District Congressman Antonio Del Rosario, for the fencing of said additional lot for the BJMP in San Jose, Roxas City. (PIA/Jemin B. Guillermo)

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Firemen to draw blood

ROXAS CITY, Capiz, Feb. 6 (PIA6) – A bloodletting activity will be conducted by the Roxas City Fire Marshal of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) on Feb. 8 at Capiz State University (CapSU) – Dayao campus here as part of its efforts to provide blood supply to the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) – Capiz chapter.

“We target about 80 bags of blood during this activity,” said BFP – Roxas City Public Information Officer FO3 Marlon Garbo, adding that the same activity was also conducted last year in view of the National Fire Prevention Month.

Garbo also noted that the scheduled mass blood donation is in time with the increasing demand for blood supply because of the rising dengue cases in the province.

Based on Capiz Epidemiological Surveillance and Response Unit (CESRU) records, there are already 101 cases of dengue fever in the province from Jan. 1 to 19 this year.

Blood donors during the activity will be composed of firemen, CapSU criminology students, Barangay Dayao officials as well as residents and other walk-in clients.

The BFP also conducts another bloodletting activity every August in partnership with Hercor College, another school offering criminology course. (JCM/AAL/PIA 6 Capiz)

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Capiz disaster team train on ICS

ROXAS CITY, Capiz, Feb. 3 (PIA6) – Capiz disaster responders vow to apply the proper procedures in handling any situation.

This, after the Office of the Civil Defense Regional Office VI conducted a three-day Basic/Intermediate Incident Command System (ICS) training course to the selected 40 members of the Capiz Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committee on Response with some representatives from the two towns, namely Sigma and Sapian.

Capiz Police Provincial Director Domingo Cabillan, who is also the province’s PDRRMC Vice Chairperson, said that the training course recently conducted in Iloilo City, will be of great help especially in handling not only disaster responses but also of other events and situations.

“Our learning’s in the three-day training course is a timely input in managing events especially that Capiz will be hosting the Western Visayas Regional Athletic Association (WVRAA) meet this February as we want the delegates to be safe and secure while staying in the province,” he said.

Cabillan added that in the ICS training, the roles, scope and functions of everyone who are directly involved in incident operation and management are clearly defined.

On the other hand, OCD Regional Director Rosario Cabrera pointed out that the training on ICS for disaster responders is aimed to ensure the effective and efficient response operation at the scene level.

Cabrera said that the National Disaster Risk Reduction and management Council through the OCD in the country is taking in lead in the implementation of disaster management with different partner agencies such as the Department of Health, Bureau of Fire Protection, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippine Red Cross among others.

She also stressed that the training of responders who are members of the local DRRMCs is based on Republic Act 10121 or the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010.

She said that Capiz is last province that underwent said three-day ICS training which was participated in by representatives from the PNP, Philippine Army, PRC, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office, PDRRM Office, volunteer groups, Philippine Coast Guard, BFP and Philippine Information Agency, among others.

Lectures therein include Dr. Joseph Bacareza of the BFP, Bago City Fire Marshall Pamela Candido, Dr. Rowel Gerson of the Negros Occidental Provincial Health Office, Escalante City Police Chief Jefferson Descallar and Engr. Paul Nogra of OCD6.(PIA/Jemin B. Guillermo)

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