By Felipe V. Celino
ROXAS CITY, Capiz — Police officers from the First Capiz Provincial Mobile Force Company augmented the Panay municipal police station to help maintain peace and order in the town.
Capiz Police Provincial Office (CPPO) Provincial Director Police Col Julio Gustilo Jr. said a team from the 1st Capiz Provincial Mobile Force Company were temporarily deployed to the town Monday afternoon after a Panay police officer tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Police Lieutenant Francisco Umiten Jr., officer-in-charge (OIC) of Panay MPS, said the quarantine started on April 9 as 13 of them were direct contacts of the infected officer.
All of them are restricted to the town’s Quarantine Facility at Poblacion Ilawod, Panay.
Meanwhile, 17 other police officers who had general contact with the index case are quarantined at the police station.
Officers assigned to the town’s Bantay Dagat team who had no close contact with the case were exempted from the quarantine.
Umiten said that the operations of the police station might be limited because of the incident.
