Crimes down by
26 %, says PNP
LOON, Bohol, August 30 (PIA)—Crimes in Bohol in July dropped 26% as against the recorded 612 crime volume in June, records from Bohol police office Camp Francisco Dagohoy bare.
At this, Bohol police authorities are still confident that the crimes downtrend since June, would continue in August, noting that people are now taking traffic laws rather seriously.
Camp Francisco Dagohoy authorities, it its monthly report at the Provincial Peace and Order Council, showed a promising crime trend that dips from an all six months’ high at 736 cases in the fiesta month of May to 484 in July.
Rendering the Philippine National Police (PNP) Bohol Provincial Police Office (BPPO) report for its chief PSSupt Angeles Geñorga, Camp Dagohoy Operations Chief Police Chief Inspector Mohammed Jul Jamiri said they are confident the crimes would continue its downtrend in August.
Speaking before the joint session of the PPOC and the Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Council (PADAC), Inspector Jamiri pointed out that from the merry month of May in Bohol, crime volume has gone 65.76% or 434 cases in July.
“We are happy to say now that we are on a decline on the monthly crime trends,” Insp. Jamiri announced for the joint council members.
Total crime volume for August was not yet available and would be by the next PPOC.
When traffic related incidents and the physical injuries that contributed to most crimes in the previous months, police credited to the drive on the implementation of traffic laws and the presence of police checkpoints which have brought the crime volume down.
Jamiri, who had a stint as detachment commander of the Bohol Tourist Police assigned in Panglao, admitted that in his monitoring in the resort island, almost all motorcycle riders are not wearing crash helmets and that people are now taking the traffic rules rather seriously.
In his report, the police officer also acknowledged the rising index crimes from February to May, the Camp Dagohoy operations chief cited the decrease of over a hundred cases as already substantial.
“From 538 cases in May, index crimes slid to 446 in June and then dove even further in July with 361 cases,” he pointed out.
The recorded decrease in index crimes in the last two months reached 170 cases.
As to non-index crimes, or those punishable by special laws, from 198 cases in May, more aggressive police anti-crime campaigns and the reinvigoration of the One-Time-Big Time (OTBT) in the Synchronized Enhanced Management of Police Operations (SEMPO) sustained the efforts.
SEMPO and OTBT also uses the same principles of scientific data in crime fighting, as it also placed the maximum number of police officers by the roadside on certain times of the day, which netted the most number of illegally driven and unregistered vehicles, unlicensed drivers and illegally modified vehicles.
From 198 cases of non-index crimes in May, authorities staved off 75 cases bringing the accomplishment figure to 123 cases.
For non-index crimes, in the other non-index crimes category, police crime statisticians noted similar decrease in 124 to 64 cases, police records showed.
Also showing promising declines are murder from 8 in May to 4 in July, rape from 9 to 7, robbery from 29 in May to 12 in July.
For theft, the 82 cases in May sagged to 46 in July and carnapping from 6 in June, slid off to 2 cases in July, according to the PNP.
As this continued, Bohol now keeps an average monthly crime rate of 35.10 and average monthly index crime rate trend of 8.92.
But for the PNP, there is no time for resting on their laurels as the struggle to keep Bohol the best place for investment and a pleasurable paradise to live in becomes even more challenging with millions of tourists expected as the Panglao Airport starts to operate in the next few months. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
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