RIZAL PROVINCE – The recruitment for a new breed of policemen is now open as the Rizal Police Provincial Office (PPO) starts to conduct the initial screening for recruits in this province.

Senior Supt. Manuel Cesar Prieto, PPO director, instructed all chiefs-of-police in the 14 police stations to spearhead the preliminary screening and interview of applicants for the position of Police Officer 1 in their respective areas of jurisdiction.

The chief of police and other police officers will compose the municipal or city adhoc body which acts as the recommending body for those would want to become Police Officer 1. (Nel B. Andrade)

2 Ifugao towns get special fund
LAGAWE, Ifugao – Two Ifugao towns are set to receive the Performance Challenge Fund from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) because of their good housekeeping practices that helped their towns gain recognition from the concerned national government agencies.

Rose Domelod, Chief of the Operations Services Division of DILG-CAR said that the municipalities of Banaue and Lagawe are the only two towns in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) who were qualified for the seal of good housekeeping program of the DILG.

“They will receive R1million each,” Domelod said. (Dexter A. See)

D.P.W.H. to plant highway trees
SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga — Officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Regional Office 3 assured the public yesterday that hundreds of trees that were cut on the stretch of MacArthur Highway, here, will be replaced.

DPWH Region 3 Director Alfredo Tolentino said that his office is setting up a project to plant more trees on the highway in a bid to replace the centenarian trees that had to be cut in the course of a recent road-widening project. (Franco G. Regala)

Diplomacy will prevail - Mallari
BALANGA CITY, Bataan – While other owners of lots occupied by squatters resort to force and violent demolitions, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) District Engineer Wilfredo S. Mallari is planning a diplomatic approach with informal settlers.

“We are resorting to diplomatic approach, informing them (illegal settlers) that the government is going to use their occupied lots for road widening in the highway,” said Mallari.

He said at least three notices will be issued to them to vacate the area before the DPWH will consider an orderly demolition. (Mar T. Supnad)