Senior
Superintendent R’win Pagkalinawan, police provincial director said that he
did not recommend declaring Pampanga as an election hot spot considering the
peace and order situation is in good shape and continuously improving.
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Senior
Superintendent R’win Pagkalinawan
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“Walang
pa tayong recommendation tungkol dito, perhaps tinignan nila yung previous
records pero sa bayan lamang ng Arayat nauulit ang ganung mga insidente,”
Pagkalinawan added.
The
top cop explained that from an average of five hundred crimes per month in 2011,
the same had been reduced to an average of two hundred crimes per month in 2012.
Most
of these, according to him were crimes against property and person.
However,
he clarified that as per his understanding, DILG
Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas only presented a watch list of high risk areas and
not really a declaration of elections hot spots.
Pagkalinawan
claimed that only the town of Arayat should be considered in the inclusion of election hot spots if Roxas really looks
into the previous records of crime incidents.
“Kung
magdedeklara sila ng hot spot, Arayat lamang ang bayan na nauulit yung crime
incident noong nakaraan. Hindi dapat yung buong probinsiya,” he noted.
Pagkalinawan
stated that the implication of having a province included in the list elections
hot spots is that the local police will be placed under the instructions of the
Commission on Elections.
He likewise
stressed that this move will send bad impression to investors who already
decided to put investments in the province.
Among
the provinces included in the elections hot spots were Pampanga Abra, Pangasinan, Ilocos Sur, La Union,
Cagayan, Nueva Ecija, Batangas, Cavite, Masbate, Samar, Misamis Occidental,
Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, and Basilan.
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