‘Team player’ Miranda wants to surpass PRO-6’s accomplishment

By Jennifer P. Rendon

 

The year 2020 had been a good year for Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6).

Brigadier General Rolando Miranda, Western Visayas, attributed this feat to his predecessor, Brigadier General Rene Pamuspusan, whom he claimed steered PRO-6 to greater heights.

 

“So, this 2021, I’m planning to make it better at kung kaya kong lagpasan, gagawin natin yan dahil unang una, sabi ko nga I want the 100 percent commitment of our police officers and my role as a regional director is to motivate, to inspire them, to provide, to incentivize para mas maging productive sila,” he said following the New Year’s Call.

 

As Regional Director, Miranda said his role is to make everybody a productive part of the peace and order campaign and public safety services in Panay Island and Negros Occidental.

 

“For those who don’t toe the line, we have to make a drastic move to remove them in office. I’m a team player. If you’re not a team player, you better go,” he added adding, “hindi ka pwedeng tumagal sa akin if you’re not a team player.”

 

In his New’s Year’s Call speech, Miranda noted that 2020 is the most peculiar year for every Filipino and the whole world owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

​“It is in this year that the heroic deeds of our police personnel who were juggling their usual law enforcement functions and other police operations, maintenance of peace and order and security and the implementation of the health protocols and contact tracing efforts altogether were highlighted,” he said.

 

OPERATIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

​From January to December 2020, different police units conducted 1,317 anti-illegal drugs operations.

These led to the arrest of 1,842 drug personalities and the confiscation of 20,154 grams of shabu and marijuana with standard drug value of PHP135-million.

​On campaign against loose firearms, 817 operations were conducted with 528 persons arrested and 57 cases were filed in court.

A total of 3,541 firearms were confiscated, recovered, or deposited/surrendered.

Of the said number, 2,541 were deposited or surrendered under the soft-hand approach while the 502 were confiscated under the iron hand approach of the Tokhang Kontra Armas Luthang or the TKAL.

During the said period, 416 most wanted persons and 3,214 other most wanted persons were arrested.

​On campaign against illegal gambling, 1,296 operations were conducted which led to the arrest of 4,926 persons and the confiscation of over PHP1-million.

Meanwhile, 730 anti-illegal fishing operations were conducted with 2,508 persons apprehended and the confiscation of 199 motorbancas and 605 fishing boats.