By Ven Arigo
Bohol StandardNew Police Regional Office (PRO-7) director Chief Supt. Ronald Roderos is aggressive to make the Bohol police strong in force and character because he hates law enforcement failed by its own impotencies.
He came to recognize in his first official visit here on Monday as the Central Visayas police head the long lack of police manpower, weapons, mobility means and communication gadgets here.
Roderos, however, acknowledged the effort of the Camp Dagohoy leadership.
The Central Visayas chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), accompanied by Sr. Supt. Augusto Marquez whose wife is a Boholana, encouraged Bohol Police Provincial Office (BPPO) head Sr. Supt. Edgardo Ingking to tell him of what else he could do apart from addressing the above police incapacities.
Bohol has 1,109 barangays, and their ratio with respect to the existing number of policemen is miserably less than 1:1 (one is to one).
In other words, it is presently improbable in this province to provide one policeman to each barangay.
The law mandates a ratio of one cop for each 1,000 population but the current condition can only maintain 1:1,300.
Police manpower as against the vastness of Bohol island is better told in a ratio of one cop per 4.3 square kilometers.
In Tagbilaran City, lately Bohol’s robbery capital until the fall of the Meloy Garcia group, the disparity is described by the obtaining policeman-area ratio of one per almost one-half square kilometers or 42 hectares.
Since the city has over 95,000 inhabitants, the Tagbilaran City Police Office (TCPO) should ideally have 96 men instead of the present 78 personnel.
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