PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Feb. 27 (PNA) — Mayor Lucilo Bayron has ordered the City Police Office (CPO) here to immediately resolve the series of robberies particularly perpetrated in remote southern barangays, which recently caused the death of a panel van driver.
Bayron particularly ordered Police Senior Supt. Edgardo Wycoco, the chief of the CPO, to arrest without delay the still unidentified suspects responsible in the robbery and murder of Ultra Health Marketing panel van driver Christopher Llanzanas on February 22 along the Kilometer 35, South National Highway in Barangay Luzviminda.
Llanzanas’ companion, a certain Peter Ballares, who is the company’s marketing salesman, was able to escape.
Prior to the incident, another panel ban was also robbed in nearby Barangay Mangingisda. Two suspects were able to escape with the money from the panel van of Andrew’s Grocery.
In line with the order, Wycoco ordered policemen at the CPO to create a task force that would conduct a deeper investigation regarding the robbery incidents.
Bayron told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) that his “Apuradong Administrasyon” will not let the perpetrators of the robbery incidents go unpunished.
In ordering Wycoco, he said the CPO must utilize all its resources to prevent unscrupulous individuals from ruining the image of Puerto Princesa as a “peaceful, safe, and orderly city.”
He also ordered Wycoco to send regular police patrol and monitoring in the outlying southern barangays of the city to keep residents safe, as well as drivers and commuters, who fall victims to the still unidentified robbers.
“I am instructing all of you to use all your resources to resolve these two robbery incidents that happened in the South National Highway. There shouldn’t be a third time; there should be police and monitoring presence in the area because this has happened twice,” he said.
Aside from police presence, he also ordered the CPO to set up nightly checkpoints in other parts of the city, particularly in the remote barangays. (PNA)