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Bacolod police taps Muslim community for peace and order drive

BACOLOD CITY — The Bacolod City Police has engaged the local Muslim community in promoting peace and order in the city.

Bacolod Police OIC Director, Senior Supt. Henry Biñas, met with Muslim leaders at the Bacolod police headquarters on Friday afternoon to discuss various peace-related issues in the wake of the recent bombing incidents in Mindanao. “They agreed to cooperate with the police,” he said.

Biñas noted that both parties agreed to exchange information relevant to peace and order.


Senior Supt. Henry Biñas (center), officer-in-charge director of Bacolod City Police Office, and the chiefs of the 10 police stations meet with the leaders of the local Muslim community (left) to discuss peace-related issues at the city police headquarters on Friday afternoon (Feb. 8, 2019) 
Photo courtesy of Shiela G. Gelera

“They expressed full support to us and committed that if they have information, they will let the police know,” he added.

Imam Abulkhair Carcauga, overall imam of Muslim communities in Bacolod, said they support peace for Bacolod City “101 percent.”

“We from the Muslim community, from whatever tribe, are one with the police for peace and for the maintenance of peace and order,” he added.

Carcauga said they agreed to share information with the police if they learn of any terror threat to the city.

“We should inform them so they can immediately act on it,” he said.

Carcauga added that for now, they don’t have any actual data yet on the total population of Muslims living Bacolod.

“But there are Muslims anywhere in Bacolod. The Maranaos, who are business people, are everywhere. We live in Bacolod with our families so we also want peace in the city,” he added.

Biñas said that even the Bacolod police does not have a detailed inventory of Muslim presence in the city.

He added that they will ask the Muslim community to provide data so the police can come up with an estimate of their population. (PNA)

Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1061461

Bacolod police OIC told to focus on campaign vs. drugs

BACOLOD CITY — Mayor Evelio Leonardia has told the officer-in-charge (OIC) of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) to focus on the campaign against illegal drugs.

Senior Supt. Henry Biñas took over the top post of the Bacolod City police on Monday from Senior Supt. Francisco Ebreo who was ordered by President Rodrigo Duterte to step down over the weekend due to his alleged involvement in illegal drugs.

Mayor Evelio Leonardia (left) receives Senior Supt. Henry Biñas, newly appointed officer-in-charge of Bacolod City Police Office, during his courtesy call at the Bacolod City Government Center on Tuesday.
Photo courtesy of Bacolod City PIO

“Every time there’s a new OIC, the illegal drugs is always one of those I would I ask them to focus on. We know that in the entire Philippines that is the problem. We have a President who is passionate about this concern,” the mayor said on Monday.

Leonardia is scheduled to meet with Biñas late Tuesday afternoon at the Bacolod City Government Center.

On Monday, the staff officers and 10 station commanders of BCPO paid a New Year’s call on the mayor.

The mayor refused to comment on the President’s revelation about the links of Ebreo and four other police officers in Bacolod to illegal drugs.

“Basically, it’s a police matter which I’m not privy to. I think we should wait for the developments. Let us take it as it is, meaning the President has spoken. The best thing to do is to wait for the next move. We will take it from there,” Leonardia said.

“I’d like to believe this is about intelligence gathering. Those things don’t reach our level,” he added.

Leonardia admitted though that, along with Rep. Greg Gasataya, he had been seeking the transfer of Ebreo since May last year because of several considerations.

“We we’re no longer at ease or comfortable with the situation. We we’re informed that our political opponents were paying him visits, the likes of Cano Tan (Councilor Ricardo Tan) and Congressman Paduano (Abang Lingkod partylist Rep. Stephen Paduano),” he said.

“We we’re wondering why he did not report it to us. It’s hard to work with a police chief who does not have your complete confidence,” the mayor said.

He also said that Ebreo did not consult him before initiating a reshuffling of the station commanders, and also pulled out police personnel from the city’s enforcement units.

However, Leonardia said despite the differences of approach between him and the former police chief, there had been no disruption of police services.

“Let me be clear about this. It doesn’t mean that there’s a disruption of police services because our assistance to the police continues,” he said.

Leonardia noted that the city government provides the BCPO a financial assistance of almost PHP22 million every year.

“It is a consistent and a substantial assistance,” the mayor said. (PNA)

Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1058919