BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – All personnel of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) remain free from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to BCPO spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Ariel Pico.
Their two COVID-19 tracker teams, Pico said, are doing their best not to contract the viral illness while assisting the City Health Office.
The tracker teams – composed of four personnel each and led by Major Sherlock Gabana – underwent orientation last April on how to avoid being infected.
Pico said the BCPO is prepared just in case their personnel either get exposed or test positive for the virus, pointing out they have two isolation rooms at their headquarters in Barangay Taculing.
Last week, Colonel Romy Palgue, Negros Occidental police director, said one of their personnel tested positive for COVID-19.
The cop was a member of the 1st Negros Occidental Provincial Mobile Force Company and among those who assisted repatriated overseas Filipino workers billeted in a hotel in this city. The police officer was later moved to the province’s quarantine facility in E.B. Magalona town where he later recovered from the illness.
Palgue said the police officer was told to go on leave as a precaution./PN
