CCAMP DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet– The Police Regional Office (PRO) in the Cordillera disclosed that the overall crime rate in the region continues to drop because of active community participation in anti-criminality, peacekeeping, anti-insurgency and anti-terrorism programs that are geared towards achieving lasting peace.
Superintendent Davee Vicente Limmong, chief of the PRO-COR’s regional community affairs and development division, said that from the previous double digit crime rate in the different parts of the region in the past years, crime volume in most parts of the Cordillera dropped to single digits daily aside from the act that there are also areas that have recorded zero crime volume in some of the days of the week.
“We attribute the decreasing crime volume in the region to the rapidly increasing awareness of our people to the aggressive implementation of anti-criminality, anti-insurgency and anti-terrorism interventions. We also believe that our stakeholders have also become informed and educated on the importance of peace and order to the growth and development of upcoming urban centers in the strategic parts of the region,” Limmong stressed.
The PRO-COR regional community affairs and development division was the former police community relations division.
Limmong also gave credit to the aggressive implementation of the government’s anti-drug campaign that played a major role in significantly reducing the proliferation of street crimes in the different parts of the country, thus, law enforcers and anti-narcotics agents will continue to intensify the campaign against the remaining drug personalities to achieve drug free status for most localities in the different parts of the region although clearing the region from the proliferation of illegal drugs remains one of the priorities of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
According to him, residents and visitors can freely roam around the different parts of the region without fear of being victimized by lawless elements because of the significant reduction in the volume of crimes that are committed considering the fact that even lawless elements have started to reform themselves because of the aggressive campaign of the police against the presence of criminals in their areas of jurisdiction.
While the attainment of zero crimes will be highly improbable because of the presence of threats to the peace and order situation of certain areas in the country, Limmong claimed that there are areas in the region that continue to record zero crimes in a day which is good for the peace and order situation in the said areas.
On the other hand, he noted that while there are crimes that are prevalent in urban centers in the region like Baguio City, La Trinidad, Benguet and Tabuk City, Kalinga, the recorded crimes continue to decrease which only shows that people are now willing to embrace the prevalence of peace and order in their places to entice the entry of potential investors who will be instrumental in spurring the economic growth of potential growth centers identified by concerned government agencies and local governments regionwide.
Limmong was the former spokesperson of the PRO-COR before being assigned to various positions in the regional headquarters.
By HENT
