BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) paid tribute to the late Police Lt. Col. Romeo Vargas who was found dead in his residence in Barangay Handumanan here on May 19. Police Brig. Gen. Romano Cardiño, PRO-NIR director, visited the wake of Vargas at the Bacolod...
BUTUAN CITY – Police Col. Richie M. Yatar on Friday assumed the post as the new Butuan City Police Office (BCPO) chief. Yatar replaced Police Col. Restituto P. Lacano Jr. Police Regional Office-13 Director Police Brig. Gen. Marcial Mariano P. Magistrado IV led the turnover of command ceremony at...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) is transitioning to a lower carbon footprint and a cost-effective fleet with the deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) to its 10 police stations. The EVs, procured by the city government for P14 million, were turned over by Mayor Greg Gasataya...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office mourned the death of Police Master Sgt. Romulo Galvez Jr. in a buy-bust operation Thursday. Galvez was remembered as a snappy warrant officer and operative. Police Col. Eugene Rebadomia, Bacolod police director, said Galvez gave his life in the...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) is pursuing new drug personalities amid intensified operations that resulted in the recovery of P1.75-million shabu in the past week. In a press conference on Wednesday, BCPO chief Police Col. Eugene Rebadomia said, as declared by his...
Police Col. Eugene Rebadomia is the new Bacolod City Police Office chief. He replaced Police Col. Joeresty Coronica during a turnover of command ceremony at the BCPO multi-purpose gymnasium presided over by Police Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay, director of the Police Regional Office-Negros Island...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Greg Gasataya is selecting the replacement of Police Col. Joeresty Coronica as Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) chief. “We are finalizing everything, and we will announce it in due time,” Gasataya said after Coronica’s exit call Thursday. Gasataya added that he has...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) is getting an infrastructure boost with the construction of another police building worth almost P10 million in Barangay Cabug. The groundbreaking led by the Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) on Friday follows the earlier...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) reported an 11.77 percent increase in total crime incidents in 2025, up 149 cases from 1,265 in 2024 to 1,414 in 2025. Index crimes or crimes against person or property rose by seven incidents or 3.76 percent from 186 cases in 2024 to 193 in...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office has implemented a reshuffle affecting seven out of 10 station commanders here. Police Col. Joeresty Coronica, Bacolod police director, gave them three months to deliver results or face possible relief from their posts. The directive was announced...
BAGUIO CITY – The Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) said Friday that it will deploy around 600 uniformed and plainclothes personnel to secure various activities on Sunday, including anti-corruption rallies. “There will be additional police personnel who will attend to traffic management,...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office reported an 18.66 percent increase in total crime volume in this highly-urbanized city from Jan. 1 to June 30. A total of 731 crime incidents were recorded in the first six months, from 616 during the same period in 2024, an increase of 115 cases....
