By: Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – Police Colonel Romeo Baleros, director of Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo) again gave a stern warning to all police officers in the province to shun unlawful activities.
This, after the provincial police office strengthened the implementation of the revitalized internal cleansing in the police of the province.
Baleros said they are implementing preventive, restorative, and punitive approaches under the revitalized internal cleansing program.
Under the preventive approach, policemen are guided to prevent them from engaging in any illegal activities, while they highlight reformation in the restorative approach, and sanctions rogue policemen of criminal charges in the punitive approach.
Although Baleros earlier said that no Nocppo personnel have been monitored to have drug links, he kept on reminding them to “keep away from unlawful activities like extortion and illegal drugs.
Baleros is appealed and requested all policemen in the province to cooperate with their respective commanders to ensure that their campaign against illegal drugs and criminalities are properly implemented in accordance with the police operational procedure.
“We need a clean Philippine National Police (PNP) so that we can serve the people based on their expectations,” he said.
