CITY AND PROVINCIAL PEACE AND ORDER COUNCILS HOLD
JOINT MEETING WITH NEW REGIONAL POLICE DIRECTOR

     Newly installed PNP Regional Police Office 6 Director, Chief Superintendent Doroteo Reyes II paid his first courtesy call to Negros Occidental Governor Joseph Marañon, Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia, and officials from other local government units in the province, during the joint meeting of the Peace and Order Councils of Negros Occidental and the City of Bacolod, with the former hosting the affair.
     Reyes said his courtesy call was not only a matter of tradition and protocol, but more importantly to affirm the submission of police authority to the supremacy of civilian authority.
     He added that as the most senior law enforcement officer in this region, his program is to dedicate to execute the mandate of the Philippine National Police in maintaining peace and order, and deliver better public safety services pursuant to the desire of President Arroyo to establish a strong republic. It is also in consonance with the PNP leadership guidelines, which sets them to arrest criminality, eliminate the reason for insurgency, and defeat terrorism.
     For his part, Mayor Evelio Leonardia said that the joint meeting was a meaningful one stressing that “we cannot just see having our peace and order council by ourselves. We are not an island. We live with the rest of Negros Occidental.”  
     “We act together, we live together, and naturally we are expected to coordinate with each other,” he added.
     The Mayor also said that the City Peace and Order Council continues to be one of the major priorities of his administration, adding that the biggest share from the PAGCOR Funds goes to the Council.
     Governor Joseph Marañon appealed to both Councils, the local government units, and the police and military authorities, to work together as a people so that every house, barangay, town and city will live in “cultured peace, unity and  renewal.”
     He said, “we are a wounded people…wounded by political conflicts and tribal wars, wounded by unjust socio-economic division, wounded by corruption and moral degeneration.”  (CMO-PIO/jmi)

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