Bacolod City Peace and Order Council Top Ranking CPOC for
Highly Urbanized City

     The Bacolod City Peace and Order Council is among the three (3) top ranking City Peace and Order Council (CPOC) nominees for the Best City Peace and Order Council Award for the Highly Urbanized City category. This information was relayed to Mayor Evelio Leonardia by the Regional Director of the National Police Commission for Region VI Honey Paredes in a letter dated April 19, 2005.
     The Evaluation Team for the said category will be conducting an on-the-spot validation and inspection of the programs, projects and activities of the Bacolod CPOC on April 25 to 28, 2005.
     The team will be composed of Senior State Prosecutor Purita Deynata, DOJ; Engr. Manuel Cortez, PRIMO; Dir. Verulo Mapanao and Atty. Marie Ramonette Cabuso, NAPOLCOM; and 2 other members of the NPOC Secretariat.
     The two contenders for the Best City Peace and Order Award, Highly Urbanized City category, are Davao and Laoag Cities, according to Executive Assistant for POSO (Public Order and Safety Office). Cresecio Palo. He said the accomplishments that will be evaluated will be those from 2002 up to 2005.
     According to Palo, the Bacolod Fire Department, the Bacolod Jail Management and Penology and the Police Community Assistance Center, are among those that will be evaluated. He said at present, at the BJMP, the new water tank amounting to One Hundred Thirty Thousand (P130,000.00), the new building for juvenile detainees and the 26 newly turned-over beds for these young offenders will count among the accomplishments of the BJMP for this year.
     Mayor Evelio Leonardia is the Chairman of the Bacolod Peace and Order Council. (PIO-CMO)

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