CAVITE, Philippines – The Cavite Police Provincial Office (CPPO) has conducted a virtual last-minute revamp of some staff officers and city and town police chiefs following the retirement of Supt. Marcos Estrada Badilla.

Senior Supt. Danilo L. Maligalig, CPPO director, said the replacement of Badilla as Dasmariñas City police chief triggered the last reshuffle of officers for the year.

Maligalig, in an interview, said Badilla would be replaced by Supt. Gerardo L. Umayao, currently chief of police of General Trias town.

Umayao was set to take the position of Badilla Wednesday. Badilla, a Philippine Military Academy (PMA) graduate, retired from the service last Monday after having been the Dasmariñas police chief for more than two years.

Maligalig said Supt. Gregorio Evangelista, CPPO deputy director for administration (DA), was reassigned as General Trias police chief. (Anthony Giron)

CANDABA WETLANDS MARK NEW RECORD

CANDABA, Pampanga, Philippines (PNA) — The Candaba wetlands have marked another Philippine record when for the first time, a Greater White-fronted Goose, a bird living usually in Northern and Central North America including Europe, surfaced here recently.

Members of the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines –Alex Loinaz and Sylvia Ramos, the photographer, first captured the Greater White-fronted Goose flying freely in the town’s wetlands in Doña Simang, Barangay Vizal San Pablo here.

The Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) is a goose species closely related to the smaller Lesser White-fronted Goose (A. erythropus).

In Europe, it has been known as simply "White-fronted Goose"; in North America it is known as the Greater White-fronted Goose (or "Greater Whitefront"), and this name is also increasingly adopted internationally.

Greater Whitefronts have bright orange legs and mouse-colored upper wing-coverts. They are smaller than Greylag Geese having yellow eye-ring of that species, and the white facial blaze does not extend upwards so far as in Lesser.

15-YEAR POLICE MANHUNT ENDS

ABUCAY, Bataan, Philippines — After 15 years of hiding, the long arm of the law has finally caught up with the suspected killer of a barangay captain in Tenejero, Balanga City.

In a report, Senior Supt. Arnold D. Gunnacao, Bataan police director, said Romeo Angeles, a native of Paraiso St., Omboy, this town was finally arrested when intelligence agents led by Supt. Allan Macapagal swooped down on the suspect’s hideout in Omboy.

Col. Gunnacao said Angeles had been the subject of a massive manhunt by the authorities after he was accused of killing former barangay captain Mario Castro of Tenejero, Balanga City sometime in 1996. (Mar T. Supnad)

'IWAS PAPUTOK' MOTORCADE HELD

SAN PEDRO, Laguna, Philippines — The Laguna Highway Patrol Group (HPG) conducted Wednesday a motorcade in line with their campaign for “Oplan Iwas Paputok” this coming New Year’s Eve.

Chief Insp. Wilson Doromal, Laguna HPG director, led the motorcade campaign along with Kalahi Rabago, head of the Laguna Traffic Management Office (LTMO),and Paul Arnuevo, LTMO chief for operations, with hundreds of HPG force multipliers showing their support to the campaign by motoring from the first and second district in Laguna.

Doromal advised Lagunenses to stop using illegal firecrackers in celebrating New Year’s Day. (Ferdinand F. Castro)