Hinigaran breaks ground for P9.6-M police station

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – The municipality of Hinigaran in Negros Occidental will soon have its permanent Philippine National Police (PNP) building.

Police Brigadier General Leo Francisco, director of Police Regional Office (PRO)-6, Mayor Jose Nadie Arceo, and fifth district Rep. Emilio Bernardino Yulo, along with other police and local officials led the groundbreaking of the new PNP building in the town last Wednesday.

Police Major Clifford Batadhay, town police chief, said the two-storey building is a standard structure for a police station in the country.

Batadhay said Yulo’s office facilitated the P9.6-million funding for the new police station.

He added that they are thankful for the commitment and support of Rep. Yulo and the local government to the town’s police force.

The new police station is situated in a 600-square-meter lot donated by the local government, according to Batadhay.

The police have been staying in the old building previously occupied by the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) for about two years now.

Batadhay said they are proposing to the local government to utilize the old police station building as barracks for the personnel, impounding area, and parking space.

The construction of the new police station will be completed by the end of this year.

Rep. Yulo said the new building will provide the police force with the necessary resources to keep their neighborhoods safe.