Cagayan de Oro City Govt To Step Up Security Drive For Holy Week

Cagayan de Oro City Govt To Step Up Security Drive For Holy Week
by: City Information Office


The city government of Cagayan de Oro will intensify efforts to ensure the safety of the people here during observance of the Holy Week.

City Mayor Constantino G. Jaraula today revealed that the city government will double its tie-up with the 4th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army on a daily basis to boost the city’s security this week when thousands of people are expected to flock religious places for the observance of the Lent. The Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (COCPO) gets an added boost from two K-9 dogs of the 4th ID to help the composite team from the police and military in checking for bombs at strategic areas.

Mayor Jaraula today issued a stern warning against criminal elements to keep out of the city and never distract the local peace and order. The local chief executive issued the warning as the COCPO officer-in-charge Isagani F. Genabe, Jr. presented the arrested suspects in a series of robbery incidents in some business establishments in the city in previous months. Mayor Jaraula told the arrested suspects that the city government will do its best to arrest and prosecute those who will victimize innocent civilians and business establishments. “We cannot grant pardon to you because the persons that you have victimized through your notorious activities have also suffered so much. It is our obligation to protect our people,” Mayor Jaraula pointed out.

The city mayor likewise warned the criminal elements who remain out on the loose, not to test the patience of local police authorities as their fight against criminality will continue. “Crime does not pay and even hard core criminals will sooner or later fall into the hands of the law,” Mayor Jaraula added. Among those presented by the COCPO to Mayor Jaraula this morning are suspects Frederico Umbiztondo, Rudy Sendo, Ramil Tolentino, and Michael Alba who are all natives of Surigao del Sur. According to police authorities, the said suspects are responsible to a series of robbery incidents that victimized such establishments as the Small Hill Loan, NGISI Trading, Cellular Phone Shop, Joren’s Pawnshop, Uplink Internet Café, Parasat Cable Office, FLC Lending, and the Iligan City Cellular Shop, among others. The suspects were apprehended by elements of the Anti-Theft and Robbery Section led by SPO1 Mario Pelaez under the supervision of P/Sr. Inspector Ruel Tuga in a hot pursuit operation that caught the suspects in the act of cutting the lock of the roll up door at Goking building. Confiscated from the suspects were 1 unit KIA Besta Van bearing plate number WSM 177, 1 large bolt cutter, a small bolt cutter, 2 heavy duty screw driver, 2 pieces iron bar, 1 hack saw, 1 open wrench and 2 pieces adjustable wrench. Also presented to Mayor Jaraula this morning were 2 suspects of illegal possession of firearms, one suspect of Agaw-Armas, one pickpocket, and alleged member of the notorious motorcycle-riding in the city."


Source: Cagayan de Oro City Official Website