BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) kicked off preparations for the May 2022 elections.
NOCPPO spokesperson, Police Lieutenant Abegael Donasco said provincial police director Police Colonel Romy Palgue convened police chiefs to review the situation of several towns and cities with a history of intense political rivalries.
Palgue also ordered his police chiefs not to engage in politics, but instead concentrate on their jobs overseeing the safety of the populace.
Palgue particularly cited as example six cops of the Moises Padilla municipal police station who were dismissed by the National Police Commission (Napolcom) for grave misconduct and grave irregularities.
An administrative complaint was filed against them in relation to the Dec. 19, 2017 arrest of then Moises Padilla vice mayor Ella Garcia-Yulo and husband Felix Mathias Feria Yulo.
Napolcom believed the incident was “election-related” and that the same was a form of “political harassment”/PN