Newly seated PD MisOcc hosted JPSCC with AFP
Oroquieta City – Police Senior Superintendent Leony Roy Geroche Ga
who takes over command of the Misamis Occidental Police Provincial Office
(MOCPPO) from its former acting Provincial Director Senior Superintendent
Archival Diokno Macala who is now with the region’s Public Safety Battalion
(RPSB 10) warmly welcome the contingent of the Philippine Army led by 55th
Infantry Battalion Commander LTC Vener Y Morga to the monthly Joint AFP-PNP Peace
and Security Coordinating Center (JPSCC) meeting at the function hall of the
Misamis Occidental Police Provincial Office.
The said meeting is the
meeting point of the Army Forces of the Philippines particularly the Philippine
Army with counterpart in maintaining peace and order to their area of
responsibilities and to coordinate with other government National Agencies and
the Local Government Units within their areas.
On Friday morning, Police Senior
Superintendent Leony Roy Ga who nearly two days old as the Officer in Charge of
the province Police Forces call upon his fourteen Municipal Police Chiefs and
the Chief of Police of Ozamiz, Tangub and Oroquieta City Finest to talk about
plans and updates on the prevailing peace and order situation of Misamis Occidental
and shared it to his counterpart the 55TH Infantry “Vigilant
“Battalion
With them are the
representatives of the province Department of the Interior and Local Government
(DILG), The DENR provincial Environment Officer, COMELEC Provincial Election
Officer and the Province Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer to talk
and share plans and programs particularly on Disaster Preparedness, CNN
Threats, the Comprehensive Local Integration Program (CLIP) and the upcoming
National and Local Election on May 9, 2016.
The Joint AFP-PNP Peace and
Security Coordinating Center (JPSCC) was establishment sometime in 2007 to
uphold peace and order and strengthen security and maintain cooperation with
the military and police with their counterparts to know each other and plan
together measures of emergency preparedness and to response to any given
situation.
With Army Capt Pableo Baloja,
55th IB S2 briefed the participants and especially the new Police
Director on the current and prevailing insurgency situation where the province
is confronted with two “Natarang Guerilla” Unit of the Western Mindanao
Revolutionary Party Committee of the CPP-NPA-NDF, NG Sendong and NG Joji.
Meanwhile as counterpart, the
PNP under Senior Superintendent Ga represented by his Deputy PD for Operations,
Superintendent Herbert Olavidez on the criminality and police operations of the
whole province fourteen municipalities
and three cities whom accordingly, generally manageable with its implementation
of the Police Integrated Patrol System (PIPs) and the Lambat-Sibat operations
were it was known that crime clearance increased by 38.9% while Crime solution
has increased to 45.9 % from the previous police operations.
With the presence of the DILG
Assistant Provincial Director Sanivier Patoc, the Comprehensive Local
Integration Program (CLIP) of the department that has been implemented after a
joint memorandum circular 2004-01 of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on
Peace Process (OPAPP) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government,
said program for the former rebels especially the New Peoples Army of the
Communist Party of the Philippines is now with the Department of the Interior
and Local Government being the frontline of government to its government units.
CLIP is the former Social Integration Program (SIP)
of the Arroyo’ Administration to deal with rebel returnees who goes back to the
folds and give them financial assistance to start a new life together with their
love ones thru a livelihood assisted project for a decent living.
While PENRO Adeline Daba of
the DENR talks about the government Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force, that is
confronted with some menace of the environment particularly kaingineros, illegal
loggers of the ASEAN Heritage Park, the Mt. Malindang Ranges of Misamis
Occidental. The AFP and the PNP are both
members of the government Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force.
As the Provincial Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management Officer, Mr. Gain Paul de Barras, shared the
province expertise in Disaster Preparedness and well surely help the military
and police in enhancing their capabilities to move and communicate as first
responder to any eventualities like typhoons, flash floods, earthquakes, landslides
of which Misamis Occidental is prone too.
To end the one day meeting,
COMELEC Provincial Staff, Mrs. Jane Jumawan briefed the JPSCC on the forth
coming National and Local Election on May 9, 2015 particularly pursuant to
COMELEC Resolution 9991 and 9981, on the recent filing of the Certificate of
Candidacy that peaceful and successful, and the upcoming Secure and Fair
Election (SAFE) 2016 campaign that will focus the cooperation of the COMELEC,
the PNP and the AFP.
Accordingly, for the past
election in 2010 and 2013, Misamis Occidental has been place as one of the
areas of concern by COMELEC.PJT
